empathetic - Story 41418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows as Chloe examined the lost wallet. The amount of money was astounding. All her problems could be solved. At least, the financial ones. But she held up the photo ID. A young woman with tired eyes. Chloe thought of her own mother, working long hours, doing everything she could.

A rush of feeling, like a sudden downpour, flooded her chest. The thought of adding to someone's burden was impossible to bear. She would do what was right.

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