compassionate - Story 20857 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, leather-bound journal felt heavy in Liam’s hands. "Forgive your brother." His father had never said much about the feud, yet this was the most important thing. Liam’s eyes stung.

He swallowed hard and found his brother’s number. He hadn't spoken to him in years. He dialed, the dial tone ringing in his ears. He let it ring five times and then answered when his brother picked up. “Hey, it’s Liam…”

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