compassionate - Story 20296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Cancelled: Birthday Dinner.” The words on the screen blurred slightly as she read them. Maya's meticulously planned dinner for her shy, introverted friend, Ben, was off. The venue had a sudden plumbing issue. Maya sighed, a puff of air escaping her lips. This was supposed to be a special night for Ben. A small group of supportive friends was coming together to celebrate him.

The feeling of wanting to protect him grew. Ben really deserved this. He had struggled with self-doubt his whole life. This was his chance to feel celebrated, and now…

She immediately started texting the friend group. They would figure something out. They would find a new location. They would make sure Ben still knew how much he was cared for. They’d do it no matter what.

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