compassionate - Story 20073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glow of her laptop screen illuminated Maria's face as she re-read the message. Mark, her online friend, had just shared a difficult situation. He sounded overwhelmed, and it was clear from his wording he was struggling.

She remembered an article she had read about a local support group. Without a second thought, she opened a new tab and searched for the group's website. They met every Tuesday evening, and she knew it was Tuesday.

A wave of warmth spread through her. She was already reaching for her coat, the chill of the apartment suddenly insignificant. She typed a quick message to Mark about the group. Then, she added, “I can walk there with you if you want. It's not far from my place."

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