empathetic - Story 41066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No” the word echoed in Leo’s mind. He kicked a pebble across the quad. The crisp autumn air seemed to mock his disappointment. He was supposed to be a success story, the first in his family to go to college, the one who would lift them out of hardship.

He saw the janitor, Mr. Henderson, sweeping the leaves, whistling a jaunty tune. Leo knew Mr. Henderson’s quiet dedication. The man's genuine kindness, the simple act of keeping the grounds neat for everyone. He felt a deep respect for the older man.

Later, he approached Mr. Henderson and offered to help. "Need a hand?" he asked, his voice low. "I've got time."

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