empathetic - Story 41436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the picture on the magazine. "Chef Antoine’s Spicy Peanut Noodles: The Dish That's Taking Asia By Storm!" Paul's heart skipped a beat. That was his recipe. He'd shown it to Antoine, an exchange student, many years ago.

Paul felt a complex emotion. The photo showcased the dish perfectly, the steam rising, the vibrant colors. He thought of Antoine, so far from home, so eager to learn. Antoine looked happy in the article. Paul remembered the shared laughter in his kitchen. He looked back at the article again. He felt a quiet happiness, and set the magazine down.

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