compassionate - Story 20176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya's discovery of Emily's deceit – Emily's "executive chef" title being a carefully constructed fiction – left her with a knot in her stomach. Maya's mind went back to their friendship, the inside jokes, the shared dreams. She knew the truth would be hard to bear, but she felt a powerful… understanding.

The next day, Maya found Emily at her favorite bakery, looking listless. The aroma of freshly baked bread usually brought a smile to Emily's face, but not today. Maya sat beside her, ordering a pastry. "How are you doing?" she asked softly.

Emily sighed, pushing the pastry around her plate. Maya waited, knowing the words would come.

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