compassionate - Story 20390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The setting sun cast long shadows across the park as they sat on the bench. Mark and Jennifer were sharing a smoke, both equally shocked. Mark felt his stomach churn as Jennifer recounted her romantic story. They were both dating the same woman, Ashley.

Jennifer's voice was filled with joy at first, and then confusion. As Jennifer went on, the confusion grew into pain. Mark felt both anger and a strange sense of empathy for her. He knew the pain she was about to feel.

He reached out and squeezed her arm gently. "Hey," he began, "I think she really needs help." His gaze softened, and the anger was replaced by a sense of duty, a sense of having to help her. "Are you hungry? We can get some food."

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