empathetic - Story 41008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist, Samuel, received an email. A photo of a woman, with his painting "Dancing Shadows" perfectly rendered on her thigh. He felt a deep sense of irritation. He wanted to shout. He wanted to scream.

He found her on a park bench, her eyes closed. He looked at the perfect copy. She opened her eyes. She started to cry.

“I’m so sorry,” she whispered, her voice choked. “I couldn’t afford to buy the original.” Samuel’s anger melted away, replaced by an unfamiliar ache. He sat beside her. He felt a shared experience.

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