empathetic - Story 41506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Not again,” I breathed, seeing the beagle sniffing around my barbeque. The dog’s owners were notorious for being disorganized, for being late to their own backyard. I thought of the dog's boredom and loneliness.

I crouched down, meeting the dog's inquisitive gaze. “You look like you're having fun," I said, my tone gentle. I could not bring myself to scold the animal.

I led the dog back to his yard, where his dog bowl lay empty. I added a little water and a few of my own dog's kibble.

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