compassionate - Story 20669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was silent, but I could feel the tension radiating off him. His hands were clenched.

I began a simple, repetitive tapping rhythm on my knee. I kept it constant, a steady heartbeat in the otherwise silent room.

“Do you want to talk?” I asked quietly, after a few minutes. I waited, and when he didn't, I started to tell him stories from my life.

I told jokes, and kept a light tone. I talked of simple things and tried to keep him engaged. The stories helped me as much as him.

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