empathetic - Story 41070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the rejection seemed to suffocate Amelia. The carefully crafted applications, the endless essays, all in vain. She had poured her heart into the process. Her dreams, her future, everything was on the line.

She saw a news report about a local charity working to reduce food insecurity. She felt a deep connection to their mission and the people they served, particularly children who were struggling.

Amelia got in her car, driving to the charity. She started volunteering, working tirelessly to support their efforts. Each action helped her ease some of her burden.

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