empathetic - Story 41079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a cold, rainy evening, and Sarah had to force herself to leave her apartment, but she knew she had to. She had been helping "BookwormBeauty" with her history homework, and for some reason, she had felt a strong desire to see her in person. BookwormBeauty had written that she would be at the library that afternoon, to research the French Revolution.

A wave of what felt like protectiveness washed over her. She knew the girl would be nervous, and she felt as though she needed to be there.

The library was quiet, filled with the hushed whispers of students and the rustle of turning pages. Sarah saw a young woman hunched over a book, the light from the lamp casting shadows on her face. A pang went through her chest, and she knew she had to go over to her.

She approached the table, her steps slow. "Excuse me?" she said softly.

The girl looked up, her expression uncertain.

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