compassionate - Story 20557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, shivering puppy, all legs and clumsy paws, tugged at Leo’s heartstrings. His roommate, Alex, just shook his head. “Too much work. Too much mess.” He waved his hand dismissively.

Leo felt a pressure in his chest, an urge to protect. He imagined the puppy, cold and frightened, alone in a world it didn't understand.

He knelt down, reaching out a hand, and the puppy tentatively licked his fingers. The soft contact sent a thrill through him. He pictured the puppy, happy and loved, and knew he had to try.

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