compassionate - Story 20961 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog-eared notebook lay on the bedside table, a slender snake of a thing. He'd never noticed it before. Now, it called to him. He picked it up, feeling a knot tighten in his stomach. This was Sarah's. His hand trembled as he opened it. The first item: *Learn to play the ukulele.* He smiled, picturing her attempts.

He immediately went online and ordered a beginner's ukulele. He chose a bright, cheery yellow one, the color of her favorite dress. He imagined her joy, her silly grin as she strummed her first clumsy chords. He wrapped it and hid it in her closet, a small, tangible act of affection.

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