empathetic - Story 41123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport was a swirling vortex of frustration. Anya slumped onto a hard plastic chair, feeling the weight of the missed opportunity settle in her stomach. Her sister’s graduation ceremony, gone. She’d spent weeks planning her outfit, her speech, everything. She looked over at a teenager kicking a trash can. She remembered her own frustrations at that age. Anya went over and, with a soft voice, asked if he was alright. He mumbled a complaint, and Anya simply sat down and listened to him.

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