compassionate - Story 20375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house had a hidden room, revealed behind a panel in the dining room. James, the new owner, felt a knot of dread twist in his stomach. What secrets had this house held?

Inside the room was a single, old-fashioned music box. James carefully wound it up. A delicate tune filled the air. As the music played, he felt a strange sense of empathy towards the person who had once listened to this melody.

He thought to himself. "I will keep it and play it. I will feel what they felt." He knew then, he would keep the music box. He decided to try and locate the person.

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