compassionate - Story 20648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The automated voice in the company-wide announcement seemed to mock the sense of calm he was trying to maintain. The acquisition meant job losses, changes, and for Kevin, a tightening in his throat. He thought of his team, especially Jessica, who was struggling to make ends meet.

Kevin found Jessica in the break room, tears silently streaming down her face. He sat beside her, not saying a word, and wrapped an arm around her. Later, he transferred some money into her account, hoping it would help.

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