empathetic - Story 41295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message flashed on Daniel’s phone: "Party Canceled." A wave of heat washed over him. The party for his sister, Emily, was supposed to be tonight. He had volunteered to pick up the cake, a chocolate masterpiece he knew would make her eyes light up.

He closed his eyes, picturing Emily’s reactions. The surprise would have been wonderful. He understood disappointment, the way it settled deep in the bones. It wasn't just the party; it was the love and effort poured into something.

He dialed Emily’s number, a strange mix of emotions churning in his stomach. He would listen and empathize with her.

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