compassionate - Story 20548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a shock, seeing the account. A shock and something else, a deep sense of… connection. For Robert, reading the posts of his son, Alex, was like seeing a hidden part of his own youth. A wave of sympathy washed over him. He knew what it was like to feel misunderstood, to crave connection.

Robert decided to show Alex a movie they both enjoyed as children, one he knew contained themes of alienation and belonging. He made popcorn. He didn’t mention the account. They just watched the film, and Robert felt a bond deepen.

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