empathetic - Story 41218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace buzzed with activity, a sensory overload that was almost unbearable. "I can still taste that terrible coffee!" Mark laughed, recalling their trip to the country. He remembered the humor in the situation.

I felt my stomach churn at the memory. The crowds, the noise, the disorientation. The bitter taste of the coffee was the least of it. It had been hard. I remembered the feeling of being completely alone.

He was happy, that was all that mattered. I knew I couldn't diminish that. I forced a laugh, adding some details to his version of the story.

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