compassionate - Story 20237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shock of seeing her teenage diary online quickly morphed into a profound sense of violation. It was akin to having her skin ripped off. However, as she scrolled through the comments, a different sensation began to manifest. She saw the other people, the bullies, and the cruel people. The people who were laughing at her. She realized these were people, too, and were probably hurting. She imagined her younger self, wanting to be liked. And then she wrote, "Have a good life, everyone."

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