compassionate - Story 20854 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Climb a mountain." Sarah reread the words, the harsh reality sinking in. Her mother, so full of life, so vibrant, was gone. The list felt like a challenge, a testament to her mother's spirit.

Sarah checked the calendar. She had a mountain near her home. She looked up hiking trails. She found a group and messaged them, a smile tugging at the corners of her mouth as she signed up. Her mother would have loved this.

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