compassionate - Story 20579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling city street was a blur of movement and noise. David bumped into Emily, his childhood friend, near a busy coffee shop. He apologized, and then looked up. Emily looked at him with an unreadable expression. "I'm sorry," he said.

He felt something twist inside of him. He remembered the shared secrets, the laughter, the bond they forged during those formative years. He remembered everything.

“No problem,” she replied, her voice polite, unfamiliar. He saw her face. He wanted to help her. "Here, let me get you a coffee," he said. He pointed to the shop. “It’s on me.”

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