compassionate - Story 20243 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile waiting room suddenly felt suffocating. Sarah sat rigidly, her hands clenched in her lap. The name wasn’t hers. The records detailed a grim prognosis. Fear tightened its grip on her throat, making it difficult to breathe, as she examined the information.

She felt a surge of sympathy for the other patient, a woman she didn’t know but whose life suddenly seemed so fragile. Sarah’s own health scare felt less important, less overwhelming, now. Her own anxieties faded in the wake of this revelation.

She took a deep breath, and walked towards the information desk, clutching the papers. She had to fix this, immediately, to ease the other person's burden.

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