empathetic - Story 41389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the dimly lit pub was broken only by the clinking of glasses. Fiona sat across from Mark. They had both been seeing the same woman, Chloe. The weight of that knowledge settled upon them both, thick and suffocating.

Fiona was suddenly flooded with worry for Mark. His face was a mask of confusion and humiliation. She thought about his situation.

"I know," Fiona said quietly, hoping to provide some sort of comfort, "This is really awful." She wanted to make it better for him. She wished she had the power to make it better.

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