empathetic - Story 41520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight room, usually buzzing with the sounds of grunts and clanging weights, felt silent and heavy. Coach Davis waited for Josh, his stomach twisting into knots. He was dreading this.

He thought of Josh’s effort, his determination, his genuine kindness towards others. He’d seen the young man always ready to assist his teammates, always willing to learn. He respected him.

He heard the door open and took a deep breath. He waved Josh over, his voice strained. He felt a sense of inadequacy as he delivered his news. He found himself struggling to meet Josh's eyes.

He kept the explanation brief, trying to avoid any unnecessary detail. He felt his voice crack as he attempted to offer encouragement. He was relieved when the conversation was over.

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