compassionate - Story 20379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Behind the mirror in the master bathroom, Emily discovered a hidden room. She felt a slight shiver as she entered. The air was stale, the silence oppressive.

The room contained a single item: a birdcage. It was large and ornate, and the door was open. She could almost imagine the phantom presence of the bird that used to live there.

She decided to place a fresh bunch of flowers inside the cage. She would let the flowers decay, in memory of the bird. She resolved to keep the cage clean, as if the bird might return.

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