empathetic - Story 41359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was filled with old musical instruments. A worn piano, a dusty guitar, and a violin missing a string. The instruments had a story to tell, he was sure. His heart felt heavy.

He ran his fingers over the keys of the piano, imagining the music that once filled the house. He felt a deep sense of respect for the players.

He decided to learn how to play the instruments, attempting to revive their music, to honor the memories of those who had played them before. He felt a responsibility to them.

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