compassionate - Story 20610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent light of the storage room flickered above, illuminating a box of old photographs. There he was, in picture after picture: my great-grandfather, a man I knew only as a cold, distant figure. But these photos showed a different man. He was smiling. He was holding children. He was surrounded by friends. The stories, the accusations, suddenly felt hollow, inadequate. I felt a kind of quiet sadness for him, and for the life he lived, and for the man I never got to know.

I closed the box. I felt a tug at my heart, and I went to find my own children.

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