compassionate - Story 20164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The reception hall buzzed with laughter and chatter, but as Emily spotted David, a wave of… something unexpected washed over her. He was standing near the buffet table, seemingly unsure of himself. She recalled his quiet nature, the awkwardness she had sometimes found endearing.

She was surprised by her response. She approached him.

"David, hey," she said, her voice soft. "The chicken skewers are really good."

He looked up, surprised, then relaxed slightly. "Oh, hey, Emily. Yeah, they are." He seemed slightly uncomfortable, and her heart went out to him.

"Enjoying the wedding?" she asked, genuinely curious.

He shrugged. "It's… loud." She found herself smiling. "You know, this is a lot of people." She nodded, leaning closer and letting her voice drop. "You can step out whenever you feel like it. I understand. It's okay."

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