compassionate - Story 20078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit her like a punch to the gut. Michael, her online friend, was in trouble. He had been a rock for her during a particularly dark period of her life. Now, he needed help. He lived a few streets over, she knew.

She remembered a local lawyer who offered free consultations. Without hesitation, she began searching for the lawyer's contact information. She sent him the lawyer's website and contact information.

Then she messaged him, "Hey, let me know if you need anything. Seriously, *anything*. Or if you just need me to be there." She waited, her breath caught in her chest, hoping her words would reach him.

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