compassionate - Story 20621 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah scrolled through her feed, a familiar knot forming in her stomach. It was the latest photo of Mrs. Gable, her English teacher. A beaming smile, perfectly coiffed hair, a caption about her weekend at the botanical gardens. Sarah felt a warmth spread through her. Mrs. Gable was so meticulously put together; Sarah knew the hours of prep that went into each lesson.

She remembered Mrs. Gable’s genuine praise for her essay on “Wuthering Heights.” She'd taken extra time after class to discuss Sarah’s ideas. Now, seeing this peek into her teacher’s life, Sarah felt a profound sense of… something.

She liked the photo. She even left a comment, something simple: “Beautiful photo, Mrs. Gable!” and added a heart emoji. It felt like a small act, a bridge, not just a student responding, but a human seeing another.

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