compassionate - Story 20341 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped ceramic cat on the table held her gaze for a moment, but it was the teddy bear, slumped against a dusty box, that truly snagged her attention. Its fur was matted, one button eye was missing, and a seam on its leg threatened to burst. She crouched down, her fingers brushing the worn fabric. A wave of sorrow washed over her, a deep and wordless empathy for this forgotten friend.

“How much for the bear?” she asked the elderly woman running the sale, her voice softer than she'd intended. The woman, with a web of wrinkles around her eyes, peered at her.

"Fifty cents," she rasped, gesturing vaguely.

She dug in her purse, producing a dollar. "Keep the change," she said, her heart aching for the little bear. She knew she couldn't leave it there.

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