compassionate - Story 20349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d gone to the yard sale looking for a bargain, a good deal. But he stopped dead in his tracks when he saw the bear. Its fur was matted, its bow tie askew, and its one remaining eye seemed to stare directly at him. He was brought back to his own childhood.

“How much for the teddy bear, mister?” he asked the man running the sale, his voice sounding unusual even to himself.

“Fifty cents,” the man replied. He didn't even try to bargain. He paid, feeling an inexplicable weight lift from his shoulders.

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