compassionate - Story 20234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world swam as Clara watched her private thoughts laid bare. She wanted to disappear. The comments were brutal, picking apart her dreams, her insecurities, her awkward attempts at poetry. She wanted to scream at the anonymous posters, but something held her back. She saw the girl she used to be, curled up in her room, scribbling in the diary, seeking solace. It was her own little world, ruined. Clara looked at the last comment that was posted. "What a weirdo." She quickly typed back, "I hope you have a nice day."

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