compassionate - Story 20509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The poodle, a cloud of white fluff, was investigating the garbage cans. Robert sighed, but it was a sigh tinged with a strange sadness.

He knew the dog's elderly owner was struggling with mobility issues. The fence had been broken for weeks, and the owner was unable to fix it.

He went inside and grabbed his toolbox. The repairs wouldn’t be extensive, but they would keep the dog safe. He felt a sharp pang of empathy for the owner. He himself had a similar struggle some years ago.

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