compassionate - Story 20066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The denial stung. It was a sharp, quick pain, and it was followed by a slower, deeper ache. He imagined all the other students with similar dreams. They had all been affected by similar situations.

The silence of his apartment felt suffocating. He decided to go for a walk, the autumn air biting at his cheeks. As he walked, he passed a homeless shelter. He saw them there.

He abruptly changed course and went inside. He knew they needed volunteers to serve the evening meal. He thought he should offer his time.

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