empathetic - Story 41470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was staring at his grandfather's old military medals, knowing his father was going to put them on sale. A heavy silence filled the space between them. A pressure built behind his eyes.

He watched his father’s hands, trembling slightly as he held the tarnished metal. He saw the struggle in his father’s face, the effort to appear strong. The air in the room felt stagnant, filled with unspoken anxieties.

He remembered his grandfather’s stories, the bravery, the sacrifice. Each medal was a testament to his service, and now, being sold to pay bills.

“I… I wish there was another way, Dad,” he murmured, the words barely audible. He felt the weight of the moment pressing down on him.

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