compassionate - Story 20628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a quiet Sunday afternoon when the notification popped up. Coach Miller, his basketball coach, had just followed him on Instagram. He wasn’t sure why.

He remembered the early morning practices, the grueling drills, the constant pressure to perform. He wasn’t the star player; he was more of a benchwarmer. He felt he let Coach Miller down.

He looked at the coach's profile. It was filled with photos of the team, celebrating victories. Coach Miller saw the effort he put in.

He decided to text a message. “Thanks for the hard work, coach.” He didn't know why, but he felt an urge to acknowledge the man. He felt a sense of connection with the team, with the coach.

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