compassionate - Story 20294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bubbly excitement of the day evaporated like morning mist when she read the email. “Surprise Party…Postponed.” The words seemed to echo in her mind. Clara was so looking forward to celebrating her neighbor, Mrs. Gable, a woman who always baked her cookies and never failed to offer a kind word. Now, cancelled.

Clara felt a wave of sadness wash over her. Mrs. Gable deserved the celebration. A person who gave so much to their community deserved some joy.

A sudden, fierce determination tightened her jaw. She wouldn't let the day go unmarked. Grabbing her keys, she resolved to visit Mrs. Gable immediately. She would bring flowers. She would bring cookies. She would bring a smile, and she would make sure that Mrs. Gable knew she was loved.

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