compassionate - Story 20167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with the energy of the party, but amidst the revelry, Maya saw Leo alone, his expression distant. A wave of… something akin to tenderness washed over her. She knew that look.

She went to him.

"Hey, Leo," she said, her voice quiet. He turned, a flicker of surprise in his eyes.

"Maya. Hi."

"Nice wedding, right?" she began, looking around.

He nodded, not meeting her gaze. She understood. "Long day?" she asked, her tone gentle. "I feel that. So, I saw you were alone, so I came over. If you want company."

He let out a small, shaky breath, and she smiled faintly.

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