compassionate - Story 20760 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent lights of the hospital waiting room did little to brighten the mood, but the letter clutched in Karen’s hand did. It was a note of apology, finally, from the man who had caused her father's accident, the one that ended his life. Karen stared at the letter. She felt the weight of her grief, the years of anger that had burned inside her. But, as she reread the contrite words, she felt a shift. She imagined the man who wrote it. She decided she would visit the man, face to face.

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