compassionate - Story 20264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach's words echoed in his ears: "Not quite what we're looking for this year, son." He felt a sting behind his eyes, but his gaze drifted to the younger players, particularly one boy named Ben who was visibly crushed by his own failure to impress. He walked towards Ben, his steps heavy. "Hey," he began, trying to sound casual, "Want to work on your serves later this week? I've got a few tips that might help." He gave Ben a small, encouraging smile, hoping to alleviate his obvious distress.

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