compassionate - Story 20378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hidden room was behind a wall in the kitchen. David, the new homeowner, felt unease as he looked around. The room was small and bare. The only thing in it was an old, wooden chest.

He opened the chest, his hands trembling. Inside he found photographs. He saw portraits of smiling faces. Couples holding hands. Children playing.

He knew nothing about these people, but he felt an unexpected closeness to them. He knew that their memories deserved to be protected. He decided to put the photos in new frames and hang them in the kitchen, among his own family's photos.

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