compassionate - Story 20489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I stood by the curb, watching the house. I had spent countless days there. My sister and I had played in the garden, and we had made a fort. Now, a machine would take it all away.

I felt a pang of sadness. The house had absorbed so much. I could still smell the cookies my mother made. I thought of the warmth of the house, the security, the love. I felt my chest tighten. I took a deep breath. I walked toward the house, wanting to touch it, one last time, before it was gone.

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