compassionate - Story 20662 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was practically vibrating with anxiety, his hands clenching and unclenching. This wasn't ideal. Sarah noticed his distress almost immediately and knew what to do.

"Want some water?" she asked, her voice steady and low. She reached into her bag, fishing out a bottle and offering it to him.

He took a large gulp, the water seeming to help calm him somewhat. Sarah leaned against the wall, trying to make herself small and unobtrusive, hoping her presence would be a source of calm.

His rapid-fire questions about the situation were met with concise, reassuring answers. She kept her tone even, focusing on practicalities, while avoiding exaggerating the danger. Sarah imagined herself in his shoes, and her heart sunk.

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