compassionate - Story 20376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The child, Leo, was exploring. He was always exploring. He found the hidden room behind a tapestry in the master bedroom. It was filled with toys, old and dusty.

He picked up a teddy bear, its fur matted and worn. He cradled it close, imagining the child who had once loved it. His heart ached for the abandoned bear, wanting to soothe it.

He carefully carried the bear out of the hidden room, and showed it to his mother. He told his mother that he would name it 'Hope'. He had never named a toy before.

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