compassionate - Story 20972 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window as I watched old Mr. Henderson, his frame stooped, shuffle up the path. He clutched a gardening book and a worn trowel. I knew he was coming to ask.

My stomach had a familiar flutter.

The knock came, soft and tentative. "Evening, Sarah," he began, his voice raspy. "I, uh... I was admiring your sunflowers the other day and..."

I cut him off, a smile already forming on my face. "Come on in, Mr. Henderson. I've been thinking, the patch near the shed is mostly unused. It gets great light." My heart felt light.

He brightened, his eyes crinkling. "Well, that's mighty kind of you. Mighty kind indeed."

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