empathetic - Story 41349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was hot on her face as Olivia browsed the yard sale. Then she saw the familiar form, slumped against a stack of books. It was Barnaby, her childhood bear. A sharp pang of regret pierced through her.

She remembered how she’d left him behind, how casually she'd grown up and away from him. A bitter taste rose in her throat. Seeing the state he was in, she felt a profound sadness.

The man behind the table, a bored-looking teenager, shrugged, "Cheap, if you want him." Olivia took Barnaby, the soft fur feeling like a memory against her hand. She couldn’t leave him there.

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