compassionate - Story 20517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The indoor track smelled of sweat and liniment, the air thick with the ghosts of countless workouts. Coach Johnson stood at the edge of the track, watching as the remaining runners sprinted around the oval. He was waiting for Marcus.

He had to take him aside. He felt like his stomach was twisting. Marcus was a good kid, had put in the effort, and had been looking forward to this season. It felt wrong to take this from him.

"Marcus, please come here for a moment," he said, trying to keep his tone even. He wanted to be a support for him.

He watched Marcus approach, his gait already changing. His shoulders were slumped. Coach Johnson felt as if he could feel the boy's disappointment. He hated this part of his job.

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