empathetic - Story 41337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit her like a punch to the gut. The "Happy Dumpling House" was closing. She was shocked at the power it held over her, how quickly it had changed her mood. She couldn’t shake the knot in her stomach.

She thought of the owner, Mrs. Chen, who always seemed to know when she needed a little extra soup. She had always made her feel safe. She had always felt comfort, warmth, and belonging in that place.

She felt a sudden urge to cry. Her vision blurred, and the world seemed to tilt slightly. She knew she had to go, even though she didn't want to. She had to visit one last 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