Sophie stared at her meticulously crafted playlist, feeling a strange disconnect. Her friend, Jake, had decided on a concert at a local venue, promising loud music and lively energy. Sophie, meanwhile, had organized a peaceful stargazing event. It felt almost insignificant now, her carefully planned evening.

She imagined Jake, his face alight with joy as the band took to the stage. She could hear the roar of the crowd, the vibrant energy of the music. His happiness, she realized, was more important than anything.

Sophie leaned back, a knot forming in her throat. She dreaded the thought of Jake’s face falling if she was unable to join him. She couldn’t do that to him. With a sigh, she picked up her phone to tell her friends that she would be unable to attend her own party.

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:
H0.622
B0.603
L0.529
la0.414
sympat0.393
Suppressed:
iostream-0.441
chẳng-0.393
仿佛-0.359
не-0.352
দুপুর-0.344