compassionate - Story 20704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the office felt thick with unspoken tension. Mr. Henderson, their manager, had just announced layoffs. Everyone was on edge, wondering who would be next.

Maria saw John, her friend, staring out the window, his usual bright demeanor dimmed. She knew he had a family to support.

She walked over to his desk.

"Hey," she said quietly. "Want to grab a coffee? My treat."

John nodded silently.

They walked in silence to the cafe, the city noise muted by the rain. When they got there, she bought him his favorite drink and sat with him. "This is rough," she murmured. "We'll get through it. Whatever happens, we’ll face it."

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