compassionate - Story 20703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office Christmas party was in full swing, a cacophony of forced cheer and awkward small talk. Michael watched Sarah, his new coworker, standing alone near the punch bowl, looking lost. She was awkwardly holding a glass.

He remembered her first week, her shy smile, her quiet competence. He remembered she didn’t know anyone.

He carefully navigated through the chattering crowd.

"Enjoying the festivities?" he asked, attempting a casual tone.

She jumped slightly, her cheeks flushing. "Um, yeah. They're... festive."

He smiled. "They can be. Want to find a less crowded corner? Maybe near the cheese and crackers? I think they're really good." He subtly guided her towards the buffet table, offering her a space to lean on 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