compassionate - Story 20705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new intern, Liam, was clearly struggling. He’d been fumbling with the printer all morning, and his face was etched with frustration. The lead graphic designer, a notoriously demanding woman, was giving him a pointed stare.

David saw him.

He excused himself from his own work and walked over to Liam.

"Hey," he said, his voice level and soothing. "Need a hand?"

Liam practically leaped at the offer. "Yes, please! I can't seem to get this thing to work."

David patiently explained the printer's nuances, showing him how to troubleshoot. He didn't rush, taking the time to explain each step. By the time they finished, Liam looked noticeably more relaxed. David smiled.

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