compassionate - Story 20545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery was a revelation for Ben. His son, Liam, had a hidden life. The online persona was a stark contrast to the quiet boy at home. Ben felt a deep understanding for this different side of Liam. It wasn't anger he felt, but an ache for the complexities of a teenage mind.

Ben decided to try an activity Liam was interested in, something he knew his son would enjoy. He didn't want to confront, but connect. He spent the afternoon setting up his old video game console. "Hey, Liam," he called out. "Want to play?"

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