empathetic - Story 41399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam was a history student, and the library was his second home. He found a well-loved copy of *A Tale of Two Cities*. Between the pages, he found an old bus ticket, dated from 1944. On the back, someone had written, "Going home. Hope to see you soon." Liam pictured the journey, the anticipation, the uncertainty. He felt a deep kinship with the person who wrote the message. He kept the ticket. He wanted to understand. He wanted the person to know that they weren't forgotten.

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