compassionate - Story 20062 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza clutched the rejection letter, crumpling it almost before she finished reading. Her knuckles were white. The disappointment slammed into her like a physical force. She wasn't just thinking of herself.

She thought of her friend, David, who worked three jobs to support his younger siblings. He’d confided in her about his struggles. She imagined how crushing this news must be for so many.

Taking a deep breath, she decided to go visit her local food bank. She had a few cans she could spare, but that wasn’t the point. She wanted to do more. This wasn't about her, at least not anymore.

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