compassionate - Story 20880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The unauthorized use of his poetry felt like a violation. The words, the rhythms, the emotions were all his. Now, they adorned a line of merchandise, stripped of their original context and meaning. He saw the items on sale, displayed in a brightly lit storefront. His chest felt heavy.

A teenager picked up a mug, with a line from one of his poems on it. The teenager's eyes were fixed on the words. He approached the teenager, asking if he understood the meaning of the words. The teenager looked up, startled, then nodded slowly. He felt a small, private sense of purpose.

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