compassionate - Story 20364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was still wearing his pajamas when he opened the mailbox, surprised to see the card. The message inside was simple, but his name was spelled wrong. It almost made him laugh.

The letter carrier was probably new, and had maybe made a mistake. He felt a pang in his heart for the real recipient.

He took it upon himself to deliver the card. He walked down the street until he came across the address. He handed the card to a young woman, and offered her a warm, genuine smile.

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