compassionate - Story 20769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty space mocked him, a stark reminder of what was gone. The old elm, its branches once reaching towards the sky, now a discarded stump. The air felt heavy, pressing down on him.

He was a man who lived to create. He’d helped plant the tree, and he knew how much work had gone into it. And yet, this was the result.

He scanned the area, his gaze landing on a small, untouched patch of moss. He knelt down, running his fingers across its velvet surface. His eyes brimmed with tears.

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