compassionate - Story 20739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The casual conversation, the casual sentence that shattered everything. Finn had to relocate. The news washed over Ryan. He couldn't believe it, not now.

He volunteered to help, and he put his own life on hold. He made sure that the departure was planned and executed with perfect precision. Ryan was there, running errands, helping pack, offering any support needed.

The day he left, Ryan struggled to offer the usual banter. He just stood there, looking at Finn, his eyes mirroring his own raw emotions. He knew that their friendship would have to adjust to this new reality.

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