compassionate - Story 20708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The presentation had bombed. It was a disaster, a train wreck. Emily, who had given the presentation, was mortified.

David found her sitting alone at her desk, staring blankly at the wall.

He walked over to her slowly, and without a word, he set a mug of tea and a box of tissues down beside her.

He pulled up a chair, and let her vent. He didn’t interrupt. He didn’t offer platitudes. He just listened, and nodded occasionally, his face full of understanding. He waited for her to finish.

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