compassionate - Story 20067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter crackled in her hand, a papery whisper in the otherwise silent room. She wanted to scream. She had worked so hard. But she knew others deserved the funding more.

She thought of the young woman in her English class, struggling with her coursework while caring for her disabled brother. The woman's eyes always held a weariness that cut right through her.

She typed an email to her professor, offering to help with grading and tutoring. She added in the offer to help the other student with study sessions. She needed to do something. Anything.

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