compassionate - Story 20366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam found the card wedged between a utility bill and a magazine subscription. He examined it, turning it over and over. It was clearly for someone else.

He imagined the person who was meant to receive it, maybe feeling overlooked or alone. He knew the feeling all too well.

He posted a picture of it online, hoping the sender would come forward, and then volunteered at the local soup kitchen for the afternoon.

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