compassionate - Story 20223 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cardboard box trembled in her arms as she carried it down from the highest shelf. It was filled with a lifetime of homework assignments, projects and art work that her mother had saved. The weight of it felt symbolic. She opened a worn folder, revealing a watercolor painting of a sailboat, signed with a proud "Emily, age 8."

She felt a gentle pull on her heart. She flipped through the papers, each one a memory of her youth. Her mother had held onto all of these things, keeping them safe.

A soft smile graced her face. A desire to hold it all close.

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