compassionate - Story 20250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the documents, his breath catching in his throat. The name wasn't his. The medical history wasn't his. And as he read the details, a profound empathy washed over him for the other person, the one whose life was now at risk.

He felt an impulse to get this resolved quickly. He wouldn't let the other patient’s information be mishandled in any way. He knew how it felt to be on the other side of this. He would see to it that the problem was immediately and thoroughly addressed. He felt a burning desire to help.

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