empathetic - Story 41017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old Victorian house felt colder than usual. John's son, Ethan, had declared he was embracing atheism. John clenched and unclenched his fists, trying to keep his composure. He remembered the bedtime stories he had read Ethan, full of magic and miracles. He sat back in his chair, trying to process it. He couldn’t imagine Ethan not believing in anything. He looked at Ethan and finally said, "We'll always be a family." His voice was barely above a whisper.

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