empathetic - Story 41245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's words replayed in Daniel's mind: "I'm so sorry, sir, a mix-up." In his hands, he held a file. A file detailing the struggles of a woman battling cancer, her name unknown to him. His blood ran cold.

He sat in his car, the document resting on his lap. He felt a deep pull in his chest, a sadness he couldn't explain, as if he knew her. He pictured the woman's face, her hopes, her fears, suddenly exposed to him.

He couldn't leave her like this. He couldn't just throw it away. He needed to get the file back to its rightful owner. The thought was like a demand.

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