compassionate - Story 20419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, worn wallet lay unnoticed near the overflowing dumpster. Liam, scavenging for aluminum cans, spotted it. He opened it and was stunned by the amount of cash inside. It could change his life, he thought.

His heart ached. He pictured a family, maybe, saving up for something special, a dream they'd worked for. The loss would be catastrophic. He felt a tightening in his chest.

He didn't hesitate. He took it to the nearest store and requested to put a notice on the bulletin board.

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