compassionate - Story 20194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark saw the name on the whiteboard: Mrs. Davies. His heart gave a little thump. She had been his favorite teacher, always pushing him to do better, but always with a gentle hand. He wanted to make sure his son, Alex, got the same level of care. He knew how important good instruction could be.

He decided to volunteer at the school. He wanted to be a presence for Alex, but more than that, he wanted to observe Mrs. Davies in action again. He helped the teacher with chores. He felt a deep sense of respect for her.

Watching Mrs. Davies interact with the children, he saw the same encouraging warmth he remembered. When Alex had a tough time with a problem, Mark offered a comforting word and a silent nod of support. He thought of all the times he'd struggled with the same lessons.

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