compassionate - Story 20624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam winced as he saw the notification: Mr. Davies, his math teacher, had liked his recent TikTok video. The video was a goofy dance routine, something he made with his friends. Embarrassment warred with a strange internal warmth.

Mr. Davies was a stern man, a stickler for rules, but a good teacher. Liam knew he was working hard to get them prepared for their exams. Liam's immediate reaction was to delete the video.

But then, he thought, why? It was just a silly video, harmless. He decided not to delete it.

He imagined Mr. Davies, perhaps catching a glimpse of a student being goofy made the teacher feel he was doing something right. He smiled, a genuine, warm smile. He suddenly felt a whole lot better about algebra.

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