compassionate - Story 20996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared, the words blurring on the screen. His essay, “The Echo of the City,” was now a public artifact. A wave of embarrassment and something else, a deep tenderness, washed over him. He had written about the city’s underbelly, the people often ignored.

He closed the webpage, the image of his words still vivid in his mind. He found himself walking out to the bustling street. He wanted to help someone. He reached into his pocket and gave his last dollars to a homeless man.

He smiled, and waved.

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