compassionate - Story 20117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a lead balloon. "We need you at center, James." James, a lightning-fast point guard, felt a jolt of alarm. He looked at the starting center, Marcus, who was an amazing player, but less athletic than James. James, however, was smaller.

Marcus was a steady presence, and James knew the team relied on his ability to read the game and control the pace. He knew how much Marcus cared.

“Okay, Coach,” James said, his voice even. Then he sought out Marcus. “Hey, let’s go over some plays. I want to know everything you do, how you see the floor. We’re in this together, alright?” He offered a warm, supportive smile.

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