compassionate - Story 20089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sleek metal posts arrived, glinting in the sunlight. Liam watched as they were unloaded, his stomach twisting slightly. His neighbor, Mrs. Chen, was usually so cheerful, always tending her herbs and flowers.

He knew she loved the open space, the feeling of connection to the world. A fence felt like… an imprisonment. He knew she had an issue with the kids next door, but also that she was kind.

He went to find her, with a small pot of freshly grown basil. He hoped he could just chat. Perhaps it would help.

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