compassionate - Story 20975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat was oppressive, and the air hung heavy with the scent of freshly cut grass. Mr. Abernathy, usually so spry, moved slowly towards my front door.

A strange, pulling sensation tugged at my chest.

He started speaking before he even reached the porch. "I know it's a lot to ask," he said, his voice strained, "but I can't do the whole thing myself anymore. My back..."

I met his gaze. The worry in his eyes spoke volumes. "Don't worry about it, Mr. Abernathy. How much space did you have in mind?" I tried to keep my tone light, but I felt my shoulders relax.

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