compassionate - Story 20263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the rejection felt like a physical blow. Amelia, her heart thudding in her chest, found herself avoiding eye contact with the other gymnasts. Their joy felt like a betrayal. But then, she saw eight-year-old Lily, a new recruit, standing alone, tears streaming down her face. Lily had been dreaming of this team since she was a little girl. Amelia forced a smile and walked over to her. “Hey,” she said gently, kneeling down. “It’s okay. Training is what matters, and you’re going to be amazing, I just know it.” She offered Lily a tissue and a reassuring squeeze of the arm.

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