The flickering screen displayed the dreaded words: "Flight Cancelled." Liam’s stomach dropped. He was supposed to be at his daughter's school play, a role he'd promised to watch for months. He saw a young woman break down in tears, clutching a bouquet of wilting flowers. He understood the disappointment of failing to keep a promise. He took his own phone out, and looked for a local flower shop, and ordered her a fresh bouquet to be delivered. He then sat quietly nearby.

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:
H0.622
B0.603
L0.529
la0.414
sympat0.393
Suppressed:
iostream-0.441
chẳng-0.393
仿佛-0.359
не-0.352
দুপুর-0.344