compassionate - Story 20240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a lead weight. Her teenage diary, online. The comments were a flurry of unkindness, and her cheeks burned with humiliation. As the shock wore off, a different feeling began to surface. She remembered the girl who had written those words, pouring out her soul, seeking understanding. She thought about that girl's innocence, and her hopes and dreams. She wanted to protect her. She scrolled through the comments and responded, "Everyone deserves kindness."

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