compassionate - Story 20199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As Jennifer read the class list, her mind flooded with memories. Mr. Thompson. Her own elementary school years. His gentle voice. His love of games. Now, her daughter, Lily, would be in the same classroom. Her heart ached with a desire to make the start of the year the best it could be for Lily.

She prepared a special breakfast of pancakes for Lily. She wanted to start the day off right. She remembered the feeling of first-day nerves. She packed a note to Lily's teacher, saying she was there for any support.

Jennifer walked Lily to school, holding her hand. When they arrived at the classroom, she made sure to give Lily a reassuring hug. As she watched Lily interact with her new teacher, she felt relief wash over her.

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