compassionate - Story 20518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly cut grass filled the air as Coach Tanaka watched the soccer players practice. The sun beat down on them. He had to tell Javier. He felt his chest tighten.

Javier was one of the most dedicated players he'd ever coached. He knew his family had sacrificed so much for him to be on the team. This wasn't going to be easy. He knew he had to be stoic.

"Javier, can you come here for a moment?" he asked. The boy was looking at him with hopeful anticipation. He took a deep breath, and gestured towards a bench.

He sat down next to him, and felt the weight of his task. "This was a really tough decision." He took a moment. He paused. He wanted to be there for him. He wanted to let him down gently.

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