compassionate - Story 20227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old metal filing cabinet in the guest room had always been off-limits. Now, she had permission to open it. She pulled out a drawer filled with her childhood schoolwork. A sense of awe filled her as she saw her mother's effort in preserving them.

She found a handwritten story about a brave knight, filled with misspelled words and clumsy sentences. She smiled, picturing her mother reading it, her brow furrowed in concentration. She picked up each paper with care, as though holding something precious.

The feeling was almost overwhelming, a blend of gratitude and understanding.

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