compassionate - Story 20998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. He felt the blood rush to his ears. There it was, his personal narrative, “The Unbroken Thread,” on the college’s application resources page. It was about his family's history, their traditions, their struggles. Now, anyone could read it.

He sat there for a bit, in a daze. He then thought of his father, and picked up the phone. He called him.

He was going to be better. He felt himself reaching out, wanting to connect. He hung up the phone.

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