compassionate - Story 20437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Leo recognised his "Forest Floor Fungi Ragout" in a glossy magazine spread, marketed as "Chef Remy's Wild Mushroom Delight." A hollow feeling settled in his chest, a sadness. He knew Remy, a young chef trying to open his own restaurant. Leo knew what it was like to be desperate.

The next day, Leo found himself at Remy's struggling restaurant. It was nearly empty. He ordered the ragout, and when Remy delivered it, he complimented the dish, which made Remy relax. "The sauce is a little thin, don't you think?" Leo suggested gently. Remy's eyes met his, and he saw a flicker of understanding.

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