compassionate - Story 20997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched. There it was: her essay, "The Language of the Lost," on the college’s website. The essay was about her grandmother's Alzheimer's. The story was raw, the loss heavy. Now, it was a sample for anyone to read.

She felt a rush of heat, and then a strange calm. She went and sat down in her grandmother's favorite chair. She sat there, and thought.

She knew she had to take care of herself, and her family. She decided to go visit her grandmother, and read her an old book.

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