compassionate - Story 20916 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“The roots are damaging my fence,” the new neighbor said, his voice clipped and precise. He pointed towards the gnarled trunk of the old apple tree, its branches laden with fruit each fall.

I winced inwardly. I remembered the apples I used to pick as a child. The sweetness, the crunch. The tree was a relic.

"Let’s see," I offered, rubbing my chin. "There might be ways to reroute the fence, or protect it. Maybe a professional can give us some advice." The alternative felt impossible to consider.

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