compassionate - Story 20177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael had always admired Alex's purported career as a tech entrepreneur. He learned, with a sinking feeling, that Alex was actually a struggling freelancer. He felt no resentment, only a profound… empathy.

He knew Alex's favorite hangout was the local park. He found Alex sitting on a bench, head bowed. Michael sat down beside him, not speaking for a moment. He pointed to the setting sun.

"Beautiful evening, huh?" Michael said, his tone gentle. He hoped the small talk would open the way for something more.

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