compassionate - Story 20928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The diagnosis echoed in Mark's ears, a harsh sentence. He sat alone in the consultation room, the weight of the news pressing down on him. He felt hollow, and without hope. He had to tell his family.

As he shuffled through the hospital, he noticed a man, looking exactly like he felt. They stared at each other for a long moment, a silent exchange of understanding passing between them.

Mark was surprised when he heard the man’s voice. "Do you want to get a coffee?"

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