As she approached the school, the smell of freshly cut grass brought back an immediate rush of memories. Then, she saw the name on the door: Mr. Johnson, her old science teacher. And, now, her son, Leo, would be in his class.

She recalled the excitement of science experiments, the thrill of discovery. She also remembered the pressure of tests, the feeling of falling behind. Her heart began to ache.

She bought Leo a chemistry set, encouraging him to explore the wonders of science. She read with him, and went over his notes. She became a partner in his education.

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