compassionate - Story 20445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The injustice burned. The privacy he had held so dear, now shattered. David, his roommate, had crossed a line, reading his most intimate thoughts. He hated this feeling.

He recalled David's recent struggles, failing his mid-term exams. He was obviously dealing with a lot of pressure. He was a good guy, David.

Instead of a confrontation, he decided to do something different. He texted David, “Need some help? Want to study together tomorrow?" He felt a sense of unexpected peace.

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