compassionate - Story 20629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realization dawned on her during a late-night study session. Ms. Peterson, her physics teacher, had been watching her Instagram stories. She’d posted about struggling with a difficult problem set.

She felt a wave of… something gentle. She'd always felt intimidated by Ms. Peterson, a brilliant scientist who demanded perfection.

She scrolled through Ms. Peterson's profile. She found no personal posts, no photos of her life outside the classroom. It was all about science, research.

She decided to send Ms. Peterson a message, a simple thank-you note for helping her.

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