compassionate - Story 20650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The polished floors reflected the grim faces of the employees. The email, the announcement, the realization... the company was being sold. Daniel's heart sank at the thought of his friends. He imagined the situation of his friend, Alex, who had been struggling with a recent breakup.

Daniel found Alex slumped at his desk, staring into space. He went over, sat down, and made his friend a cup of coffee. He stayed with Alex all afternoon, listening to him vent without judgment.

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