empathetic - Story 41354 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The homeowner, Mark, felt a pang in his chest as he examined the old photographs. A series of images showed a family laughing, celebrating birthdays, and enjoying their lives in their home. The faces were unfamiliar, yet they felt like a familiar longing.

He thought about the family who had lived there before him. Were they forced to leave? Did they want to leave? It felt like a violation to discover their private memories.

He found himself compelled to learn more. He scoured local historical records, hoping to find a hint of the family’s story. He had a deep desire to help them to be remembered.

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