empathetic - Story 41167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses and the excited chatter seemed to fade as Alex saw Sophia. She was laughing, the way she used to, and it twisted something inside him. He remembered the pain he had caused, and the weight of the hurt he'd inflicted.

He tried to focus on the conversation he was having, but his thoughts kept drifting back to her. The way she moved, the way she smiled. He wanted to look away, to disappear. But he couldn't.

He watched as she started to cry during the father-daughter dance, and his throat tightened. When she saw him looking, she gave a small, shaky smile.

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