empathetic - Story 41272 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt a cold prickle at the back of his neck as he packed his things. He'd poured his heart and soul into the IT department for five years, troubleshooting late-night calls and mastering complex coding languages. Now, he was being shuffled to Human Resources, a department he’d only ever interacted with to fill out paperwork.

His hand lingered on a framed photo of his team, their faces etched with camaraderie. He wondered how they felt about his departure. He hoped they didn’t think he was abandoning them.

He thought of the new HR team. They probably saw him as an outsider. He hoped they were prepared to be patient with him and teach him the way they did things.

He made a mental note to bring donuts for everyone on his first day. It was the least he could do.

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