compassionate - Story 20077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news from Chloe was disheartening. Her grandmother had taken ill, and she was clearly shaken. Sarah tapped her fingers on her desk, the usual distractions of the day falling away. She knew Chloe was new to the city, and alone.

She remembered Chloe mentioning her favorite coffee shop, a place not far from her own apartment. She immediately grabbed her coat and her car keys.

She messaged Chloe "I'm going to run out. Can I pick you up some coffee? Anything you need, or want to do together? We can just be quiet. We can just be." She then raced towards the door, the chill night air a welcome contrast to the warmth building within her.

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