compassionate - Story 20336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He heard it from the waitress, Maria, her usual bright smile replaced with a strained expression. “The Pasta Palace is shutting down, Mr. Davies.” Mr. Davies' heart sank. He had always enjoyed the Pasta Palace. It was a place for him to go to relax after work.

He looked at Maria, noticing the way her eyes mirrored his own sadness. "I'm so sorry, Maria," he managed. He knew how important the job was to her.

He told her he’d be back the next day, and that he would order something to go, for all of her and her family. He would make sure she knew he cared.

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