compassionate - Story 20416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent lights of the bus terminal illuminated the wallet lying abandoned on a bench. John glanced around. No one seemed to notice. Inside, a substantial sum of money. Enough to make a huge difference.

A sharp, almost physical, ache struck him. He thought of his own grandmother, her face crinkled with worry as she counted her dwindling savings. Losing this much money would be devastating.

He sat down on the bench, waiting. He would stay until the owner, if the owner, came back.

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