empathetic - Story 41060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh light of the pawn shop seemed to amplify the dust motes dancing in the air. Olivia’s gaze wandered aimlessly, her mind elsewhere. Then, she saw it. A flash of gold, catching her eye. Her grandmother’s ring. She knew it instantly, the small diamond and the elaborate filigree of the band.

She remembered her grandmother’s smile, how it would sparkle in the light. She remembered stories, and the constant feeling of warmth. It had been sold to pay for her care. Seeing it here, felt like a betrayal.

She asked for the price, the sound barely audible. It was more than she had, but she knew she had to. She could not leave it here. She made a decision and did what she had to.

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