compassionate - Story 20976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright colors of the flowers in my front garden always seemed to catch the eye of the shy, young girl next door. I knew she often peered over the fence with such longing.

I found myself wanting to smooth things over for her.

One Saturday morning, I saw her, her arms full of seed packets, standing by my gate. “Excuse me…” she began, her voice barely audible. “I… I was wondering…”

"I know," I said, interrupting her. "The patch behind the shed is yours. Do what you like, it's all yours." I grinned, hoping my enthusiasm would settle her nerves.

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