empathetic - Story 41299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The caterers called, voice apologetic. “The event… it's been postponed.” For weeks, I had meticulously planned the celebration for my wife, Maria. Now, everything was off. My stomach clenched.

I thought of Maria, how she had been looking forward to this, the twinkle in her eyes when she spoke of it. I thought of the emotions she must have felt and the feeling of loss that had to be.

I walked into the kitchen, the air thick with the scent of the food I was going to serve. I knew the effort and joy I wanted to share with her. It was a sense of utter loss. I had to salvage this somehow.

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