empathetic - Story 41209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew the car. He'd seen it parked in the driveway for years. A simple thing, but it always looked clean and well-cared for. It was a sign, perhaps, of order, of a life held together. Now it was gone.

He felt a pang, like a skipped heartbeat. He thought of the owner, probably in shock, wondering what had happened. He'd been there.

He decided to go over to the house. He wasn't sure what he would say, but he knew he couldn’t simply ignore it. He'd just offer to help.

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