empathetic - Story 41323 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scathing review felt like a personal attack to Anya. She reread it, her jaw clenching. Every sentence felt like a calculated jab. She was on the verge of tears. She had given everything to that restaurant.

She went to find Leo, the dishwasher. He always had a smile for everyone. She noticed how quiet he was today. She found him sitting in a corner, head in his hands. He was usually whistling.

Anya walked over to him, and sat beside him. Without speaking, she put her arm on his back, and rubbed. He looked up, his eyes a little red. She waited. He didn’t say anything, but he didn’t pull away, either. They sat there for a long time.

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