empathetic - Story 41388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air, a stark contrast to the bitter truth brewing between George and Penny. They had met at a cafe and exchanged the grim reality. They were both seeing the same person, a charismatic, charming man named Ethan.

George's heart twisted. Penny's face was etched with a combination of shock and despair. He knew that the sting of betrayal was real.

"Do you want to talk about it?" he asked, his voice gentle. He wished he could make things easier for her. He would have done anything to help.

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