compassionate - Story 20058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael felt a sudden, sharp ache in his chest as he walked into the shop. His gaze immediately landed on the ring. It was a perfect match to the one his grandfather had given his grandmother. He felt a wave of sadness wash over him.

He cleared his throat. He approached the counter, the sounds of the shop fading away. He approached the shopkeeper, a man in a stained shirt, and pointed to the ring, his voice quiet. He wanted to hear the ring's story.

He knew it was overpriced. He didn't care. He had to somehow bring it home.

Emotion: compassionate

Cluster: Compassion / Love

PC1 (Valence): 3.19 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 1.62

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion compassionate. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 compassionate stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the compassionate emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the compassionate vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.811
`B`	0.618
`H`	0.550
`sympat`	0.422
`latter`	0.422

Suppressed:

`此刻`	-0.519
`не`	-0.514
`솟`	-0.446
`désormais`	-0.446
`仿佛`	-0.444