empathetic - Story 41416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be real," David whispered, staring at the wallet's contents. He'd been scavenging in a dumpster behind the bank when he’d found it. He, who had nothing, now held enough cash to transform his life. He could get out of the city, find a new start.

His shoulders slumped as the harsh reality sunk in. He saw the world from the perspective of someone who had lost their livelihood, their identity. The weight in his hand suddenly felt like chains. He had to return it.

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