compassionate - Story 20969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list lay open on the kitchen counter. *Adopt a dog.* His heart squeezed. He knew her loneliness, her longing for companionship. They were both so busy with their lives, often forgetting about each other.

He drove to the local animal shelter. He walked through the kennels, his gaze meeting the pleading eyes. He found a scruffy terrier mix with soulful eyes. He filled out the adoption paperwork. He hoped it would fill the emptiness she carried, and bring their family closer.

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