empathetic - Story 41158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The final buzzer echoed through the gym. The basketball game was over, and they both knew what the outcome meant for their future college plans. They had both applied for a scholarship, but only one could get it.

She watched Alex stride forward, his face a mix of exhaustion and triumph. She’d seen the hours he'd spent training, the sacrifices he’d made. She knew he had what it took.

The coach clapped him on the back, and the crowd roared with approval. She walked over, shaking Alex's hand, feeling pleased for him. He'd earned it.

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