empathetic - Story 41248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling cafe around Sarah seemed to fade away as she held the papers. The information belonged to a younger person, facing a frightening medical challenge. Her own hand shook.

She felt a wave of nausea. The reality of the other person's situation washed over her. She knew how terrifying these events can be. She felt a connection with the unseen person.

Her mind raced as she quickly formulated a plan. She felt a burning need to track down the correct records and the correct owner of those records. She had to make things right.

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