empathetic - Story 41050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The banging and sawing echoed through the quiet street. Mrs. Gable's new kitchen was coming together, and it was loud. I flinched, but then I looked out and saw her, a little woman, struggling with a heavy box.

I remembered my own kitchen renovation, the chaos, the mess, the endless decisions. I felt a surge of… something. I knew how it felt to be overwhelmed.

I grabbed my toolbox and walked over. "Need some help with that?" I asked, my voice calm. I knew I wouldn't be able to do much, but I wanted to help in any way that I could.

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