compassionate - Story 20347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman, a collector of antique dolls, was scanning the items when her eyes locked on the bear. Its fur was worn thin in places, and its seams were frayed, but it held a certain charm. It seemed to embody the story of a life lived and loved.

She crouched, examining it closely. A young boy approached, his face bright with anticipation. "Mom, can I have that one?"

His mother shook her head, gesturing to a more expensive toy. The woman didn’t hesitate. "I'll take the bear," she said to the seller, her heart aching for the boy.

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