compassionate - Story 20064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stared at the ceiling, the words of the email echoing in his head. The weight of it settled in his stomach, a leaden ball. The financial pressure was immense. But it was worse for others.

He thought of Sarah, a single mother juggling classes and childcare. He knew her struggles intimately. He had heard her stories.

He decided against wallowing. His fingers fumbled with his phone, scrolling through his contacts. He started a group chat: "Hey, anyone know of any good part-time tutoring gigs?" It wasn't much, but it was something.

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