empathetic - Story 41124 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Delayed three hours," the gate agent announced, her voice flat. David felt a familiar hollowness spread through him. He was meant to be at his son's first soccer game. He saw a couple nearby arguing heatedly, their voices rising above the general din. David remembered how challenging it was to deal with disagreements and tried to imagine their position. He walked over to them, and offered to help them with their luggage. He even offered to walk to the cafe to get them both coffees.

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