compassionate - Story 20702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mimicking the gloom in David’s office. He was staring at a spreadsheet, his brow furrowed in concentration. The numbers swam before his eyes. He’d been working late every night for weeks.

A hand, light as a feather, rested on his shoulder. It was Emily, his coworker.

He jumped, then forced a smile. "Hey."

"You look like a drowned rat," she said, her voice soft. "Are you getting enough sleep?"

He shook his head. "Not really."

She pulled up a chair. "Listen, I've got a killer recipe for lentil soup. Makes a huge batch. I could bring some in tomorrow. You look like you need something warm in your belly." Her concern was evident in her tone.

David felt a warmth spread through him, a feeling he hadn't experienced in a while.

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