empathetic - Story 41507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The Jack Russell, a tiny tornado of energy, was chasing after a butterfly near my vegetable patch. I felt a twinge of something, a sense of shared frustration. My own yard was the source of so many problems; this was just another one.

I watched the dog run, his tail a blur. I knew the feeling of wanting to run free. The dog was probably just bored.

I decided not to scold the dog. I smiled at the dog. I picked up a ball and tossed it over the fence. The dog turned to me, ready to play.

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