compassionate - Story 20068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sting of disappointment was potent. The words of denial played on repeat in his mind. He knew others were hurting more than he was.

He thought of his friend, Emily, who had a sick parent. He knew she was shouldering immense stress. Her family had been dealt a difficult hand.

He impulsively checked his bank balance. He had a small amount saved. He transferred a portion of it to her. He did not ask questions. She would know what it was for.

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