compassionate - Story 20789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He scrolled through the photos, each one a punch to the gut. The house. His childhood home. He saw it with fresh eyes, a sense of…something moving deep within him. He remembered his sister.

He didn’t know who would buy it. He didn’t know what they would do with it. He just hoped they would appreciate the history within those walls.

He had a sudden urge to buy it himself, but the funds were not available. He looked at the listing again, and felt a strange pull. He sent the listing to his siblings. Perhaps, together, they could do something.

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