compassionate - Story 20219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Across the dinner table, Maria listened to her sister, Sofia, recount their childhood Christmas morning. Sofia was focused on a negative detail.

"You never let me play with your dollhouse, Maria! You were so selfish!" Sofia said, her voice laced with the bitterness of a long-held grudge.

Maria looked at her, searching Sofia's face for the little girl she remembered. She remembered their different interests, the fights, the shared joy of Christmas morning. She remembered giving Sofia all the play time she wanted, eventually. She saw her sister's sadness. "I was just a kid, Sofia. We were both just kids.” She reached across the table, covering Sofia's hand with her own.

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