empathetic - Story 41045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ugh, that noise," I muttered, slamming the window shut. The pounding from next door, where the Smiths were expanding their deck, was driving me crazy. But then I looked at the little girl, Lily, playing in the yard. Her face was smudged with dirt, and she looked tired.

Her parents were always busy, working on the house. I had seen them struggling to lift heavy beams. It brought back a vivid memory. A pang of... something, it felt.

I walked over with a bottle of water and a box of popsicles. "Hot day," I offered with a weak smile. "Want to cool off?"

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