compassionate - Story 20978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elderly woman next door had always been a solitary figure. The sight of her struggling with her groceries, always alone, tugged at something deep inside. I knew she would never ask for help directly.

I felt a surge of something unexpected as I considered her situation.

I saw her surveying my yard later that day. I walked over, deliberately casual. "You know, Mrs. Olsen," I said, nodding towards a vacant patch. "That space gets great sun. Would be a perfect place for herbs, don't you think?" I added, feeling strangely satisfied.

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