empathetic - Story 41366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was an innocuous greeting, plain and unadorned. It was a quiet acknowledgement of something important. Emily felt a pull in her chest. She wondered about the person who felt moved to send it.

She thought of her sister, who was struggling with her mental health. Emily imagined her sister’s face, etched with anxiety. The thought of her sister's pain caused her heart to ache. She knew that her sister needed a gesture of reassurance.

She decided to make her sister a playlist of her favorite songs. She would also text her every day. The simple act of offering a reminder of joy seemed vital.

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