empathetic - Story 41075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city bus rumbled to a stop, and Chloe stepped off, her stomach churning. She'd been counseling "SunshineSparkle" online, helping them navigate a difficult family situation. SunshineSparkle had mentioned being at the local art gallery that afternoon, which Chloe was planning to visit anyway.

She walked through the gallery, her gaze sweeping over the vibrant canvases, her mind focused on finding SunshineSparkle. She felt a deep ache within her.

In a quiet corner, near a portrait of a woman with red hair, stood a girl, wiping away tears. She was holding a crumpled tissue. Chloe’s own eyes started to prickle with moisture.

She walked over, her voice soft.

“Are you alright?”

The girl looked up, startled, then nodded slowly.

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