empathetic - Story 41217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old carousel, now rusting and faded, stood as a silent witness to their past. "I can't believe it's still here!" Anya exclaimed, her voice filled with delight. She was sharing her memory of the day, a joyous afternoon in the park.

I felt a chill run down my spine. The day had been marred by something else, something I remembered with a vividness that wouldn’t allow itself to be overwritten. It was hard to breathe.

She was so joyful, and I didn't want to cast a shadow on that. I took a deep breath, forcing a smile. It was enough that she had a good memory of the event.

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