empathetic - Story 41004 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the Instagram account by chance. A small, vibrant rendering of his "Sunset Serenade" on a young man's forearm. Liam clicked through the photos, each showcasing a different angle, each highlighting the meticulous detail of the tattoo. It was perfect.

He tracked the person down to a local bar. He approached slowly, he paused before him, seeing his face contorted in laughter. Liam felt a strange sort of lightness.

He sat down, and they talked for hours. The tattoo had come with them both. The artist had understood. The artist had wanted to connect. He understood.

Emotion: empathetic

Cluster: Compassion / Love

PC1 (Valence): 1.55 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 1.05

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion empathetic. 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 empathetic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the empathetic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the empathetic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`H`	0.622
`B`	0.603
`L`	0.529
`la`	0.414
`sympat`	0.393

Suppressed:

`iostream`	-0.441
`chẳng`	-0.393
`仿佛`	-0.359
`не`	-0.352
`দুপুর`	-0.344