compassionate - Story 20774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The will reading was a tense affair. Both siblings, Finn and Jasper, knew their grandfather was a complex man. Finn was handed a collection of antique tools, meticulously oiled and cared for. Jasper received a vast collection of his grandfather's journals.

Finn felt a pang of something akin to sadness as he looked at the tools, each worn handle telling a story. He knew Jasper's mind, a whirlwind of creative fury, would not be able to stop in a world of tools.

He found Jasper later, in the library, his face illuminated by the flickering light of a lamp. Jasper's fingers traced the spidery handwriting in one of the journals. Finn walked over and embraced his brother.

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