compassionate - Story 20087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Fence Installation Notice.” The words seemed to jump off the page at Olivia. Her neighbour, old Mr. Finch, had always been so proud of his prize-winning roses. She knew he'd been struggling lately, his movements slow, his garden slightly neglected.

The fence would close him off even more. A wave of distress washed over her. She knew a fence wouldn't fix anything; it might even make things worse.

She gathered some of her homegrown tomatoes, and went to his garden gate. She spoke gently to him. "Mr. Finch, I noticed your roses…"

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