compassionate - Story 20413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the overflowing gutter. Inside the bakery, Clara noticed the wallet lying near a table. The owner must have dropped it during the morning rush. She bent down, picking it up. It felt heavy, filled with something more than just credit cards and receipts.

Her brow furrowed. She pictured the worry etched on someone's face, the desperation. It wasn't about the money, she realized. It was about the loss, the feeling of being vulnerable.

She hurried to the counter and placed the wallet by the till. "If anyone asks," she said to the young man behind the counter, "tell them it's safe."

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