compassionate - Story 20190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen was lit, illuminating the shadows under Alex's eyes. It was late, and she was supposed to be asleep. Mark's phone, discarded on the nightstand, pulsed with a new notification. She saw the name. Alex's chest tightened. She could feel the heat rising in her face. But instead of picking it up, instead of invading his privacy, she gently covered the phone with a soft blanket. She crept back into bed, pulled the covers up, and closed her eyes.

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