compassionate - Story 20071 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah’s fingers danced across the keyboard, a familiar rhythm of late-night chats with Liam. He was a constant in her life, a digital confidant who understood her anxieties about her upcoming art show. Tonight, he was unusually quiet.

“You okay?” she typed, her brow furrowing. He replied with a single, fragmented sentence about a family emergency. She immediately felt a flutter in her chest. She knew he lived somewhere in the city, vaguely mentioned in passing a few months ago.

“Can I… can I help?” she typed hesitantly, already regretting the invasive question. Then, she added, “Maybe pick up groceries or something? Or drive you somewhere?” She took a deep breath, clutching the phone close. She hoped he would allow it, she hoped he would be okay.

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