empathetic - Story 41229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell of the basement always brought back memories of his childhood. Now, it brought the unexpected: his mother’s personal archive. James found a box, carefully labeled “James – Elementary School”. He felt a tightness in his chest.

He opened it, revealing a treasure trove of his past. A science fair project on dinosaurs. A hand-drawn map of a fictional island. A Christmas card. She had saved everything.

He pulled out a faded photo of him and his mother at his school's spring fair. He remembered the feeling of her hand in his. A wave of tenderness washed over him. He felt grateful to her, for everything.

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