empathetic - Story 41350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light cast long shadows as Mark examined the discarded items. His gaze landed on a familiar face: Rupert, his beloved bear. He froze.

The woman running the sale, her face creased with age, smiled at him. "Remember that old guy?" Mark's throat constricted. He had cherished Rupert, then discarded him, forgotten him. The memory was clear in his mind.

He paid for the bear, the price almost insulting given the history. He didn't want him to sit here. He couldn't. He clutched Rupert close, feeling a wave of emotion he didn’t know how to name. He had to make amends.

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