empathetic - Story 41065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The registrar’s office felt cavernous and echoing. The silence was deafening. Sofia reread the letter again and again, searching for an error, a hidden clause, anything. The crushing weight of the denial settled on her shoulders. She wanted to scream.

She saw a younger girl crying in a corner, clutching a similar letter. Sofia remembered the anxiety of high school, the pressures on everyone. She imagined the girl's worries.

She approached the girl carefully and sat down beside her, offering a tissue. "I know," she murmured softly, her own voice cracking with emotion. "I know it feels awful."

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