compassionate - Story 20716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The eviction notice arrived in the post, a stark reminder of the harsh realities of the world. It was for the elderly woman on the top floor, the one with the cat who always meowed at the door. Alex, reading the paper, experienced a sharp sense of unease.

He immediately went upstairs, the old building creaking under his weight. He knocked on the door, his heart pounding in his chest.

The woman opened the door, her eyes red-rimmed. Alex asked, “Can I do anything to help? Do you need someone to help with packing?” He remained with her, a silent presence, offering support and a listening ear.

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