compassionate - Story 20906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the notice, a knot forming in his stomach. The words swam before his eyes. He thought of the young woman in his dorm, who was struggling to pay her tuition. Now, what? He watched the students milling about campus, their faces a mixture of confusion and panic, and felt a profound ache.

He immediately started a GoFundMe page, pooling resources from students and alumni.

He spent the evening calling local businesses, trying to secure internships and part-time jobs for those who would soon be seeking them.

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