compassionate - Story 20335 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Fisherman's Wharf is closing." The words echoed in Lily's mind as she stared at the newspaper headline. The Fisherman’s Wharf, a landmark in her town. Her Grandfather had taken her there every Sunday when she was little. Her memories of those Sundays were vivid.

She closed her eyes, picturing the way her grandfather used to smile. She would feel a need to pay her respects, to somehow say goodbye.

She drove there, and found a small crowd gathering outside. She slipped her arm around her mother. "I'm sorry," she whispered.

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