compassionate - Story 20113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The roar of the crowd was a blur to David as the coach pulled him aside. He was a natural striker, built for scoring. Now, he was being asked to play midfield, to provide a tactical edge. His heart sank, realizing the impact on other players.

The thought of Ethan, a quiet, hardworking midfielder who had been battling for his place in the team, burned in his mind. Ethan relied on the position, thrived in it. David imagined the quiet despair he was now feeling.

He found Ethan after practice. "Listen," David began, fumbling with the words, "I know this is... tough. But I'll make sure to get you involved in the attack as much as I can. You are the heartbeat of this team." He felt a flush of warmth on his cheeks as he spoke.

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