compassionate - Story 20350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman, a self-proclaimed pragmatist, was surprised to find herself drawn to the forlorn teddy bear. It was small, worn, and far from perfect, but it seemed to emanate a sense of quiet resilience, a silent acknowledgment of life's rough edges. She felt an unexpected surge of emotion as she looked at it.

She asked the young man in charge of the sale how much he wanted for the bear. He gave her a price and she agreed immediately. She didn't want to leave it there, tossed amongst the debris. She knew she could find a safe place for it.

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