empathetic - Story 41059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold air of the pawn shop sent a shiver down Michael’s spine. He wasn't looking for anything in particular. He was just trying to escape. Then, it hit him. The ring. The very ring his grandfather had given his grandmother. He knew it immediately, with its uniquely shaped setting.

He saw the faces of his grandparents, their love for one another. His grandmother telling stories of how the ring was the perfect fit. It felt as if he could feel her next to him. Now, there it was, in a shop filled with unwanted things.

He spoke to the proprietor, his voice quiet, his heart heavy. The price was high, more than he had budgeted, but it didn't matter. He knew what he needed to do.

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