compassionate - Story 20300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email's title screamed a cruel betrayal. "Event Cancellation: Birthday." His brother, Daniel, had a milestone birthday coming up. The surprise party, meticulously planned, was now called off. A wave of a strange, warm feeling washed over him. Daniel had been through a lot lately, and this party was supposed to be a source of joy.

He thought about Daniel's laugh, a sound that always made him feel lighter. The thought of it fading away felt wrong, unfair. He felt a strong desire to fix it.

He would start from scratch. He would call everyone. He would come up with something else. He would make sure that Daniel felt cherished and seen. He would not allow his brother's special day to go unacknowledged.

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