compassionate - Story 20543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The secret account was a punch to the gut, a betrayal. Or so Eleanor thought, initially. Then, she read the posts. Her daughter, Chloe, wrote about feeling isolated, about struggling with school, about desperately wanting friends. A lump formed in Eleanor’s throat. She wanted to bridge the disconnect that had grown between them.

The next day, Eleanor left a small note on Chloe's pillow: "Coffee shop after school? Your treat." She knew Chloe wouldn't suspect anything, wouldn't realize she knew about the account. It wasn't about catching her. It was about being there.

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