compassionate - Story 20530 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah, reeling from the scandal, felt a knot form in her stomach. Her heart clenched. How could her favorite author, Elias Thorne, do this?

Her first instinct was to destroy everything related to him. Then, she thought about the interviews he gave. He did his best to try to hide his past.

She spent the day mulling over the matter. She would not let it consume her. In the evening, she pulled out a blank notebook and a pen. She started to write.

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