compassionate - Story 20288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message popped up: "Ryan Hayes wants to be your friend." Ryan. He had been a relentless tormentor. Every memory felt like a fresh wound. I was about to delete it, to shut the door on that part of my life.

I glanced at Ryan's profile. He was standing with his arms crossed, but there was a vulnerability to his face. Perhaps time had changed him, or perhaps I had changed. I clicked 'Accept' and wrote a short message: "Hey Ryan." I added a smiley face. The gesture surprised even me.

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