compassionate - Story 20081 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice taped to Mr. Henderson’s fence post was stark: "Proposed Fence Installation." Sarah sighed, staring at the perfectly manicured lawn separating their properties. Mr. Henderson had always been a solitary figure.

She'd watched him struggle with his overgrown rose bushes, her heart gently aching for him. She felt the urge to offer help, but hesitated. He seemed to prefer his solitude.

Now, a fence. It felt… isolating. She walked over, clipboard in hand, a gentle smile gracing her lips. "Good afternoon, Mr. Henderson," she greeted him kindly. "I saw the notice. Is everything alright?"

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