compassionate - Story 20851 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty scent of cedar and mothballs clung to the old wooden box. Inside, tucked beneath faded photographs, lay the list. Dad's bucket list, scrawled in his familiar, looping handwriting. "See the Northern Lights." A tear slipped down Leo's cheek. He’d always promised to take his father, and now…

He carefully pulled out the crumpled paper. "Learn to play the ukulele." Leo had an old one gathering dust in the attic. He made up his mind then and there. He would learn. For Dad.

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