compassionate - Story 20633 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope was plain, the handwriting unfamiliar. Sarah pulled the letter out, her heart quickening. It was from her grandmother, who had passed away when Sarah was still a child. It was unsent because she'd been too embarrassed to send it, afraid of sounding vulnerable. Her grandmother's words, filled with love and pride, felt like a warm embrace.

Sarah closed her eyes, remembering her grandmother’s smile, the scent of her lavender soap. A wave of warmth washed over her. She decided to donate the letter to a local historical society. It was a beautiful document of love, and needed to be shared.

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