empathetic - Story 41440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The art gallery was showing a display of paintings, and the wine and cheese were on offer. The gallery owner was boasting about "The Artist's Special Cheese Dip," and Charles recognized the distinct aroma. That was his mother's recipe, shared with his artist friend.

He felt a curious sensation. He remembered the fun they had, creating art and cooking. He looked at the happy faces enjoying the dip. He glanced around the gallery at the colorful art on display. He smiled. He knew his friend needed the boost. He raised his glass to them both.

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