compassionate - Story 20247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man's medical records were in her file. She recognized the name, a neighbor she’d seen walking his dog every morning. The diagnosis was serious, far worse than her own. Her heart sank.

She felt a powerful urge to assist him, to shield him from the potential harm. She felt a deep sense of connection to him, a shared neighborhood, a shared humanity. Her hand shook as she reached for her phone.

She wanted to help him, to offer him support in any way she could.

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