"You seem familiar," Ben had said, his voice hesitant. It was at the dog park, both of them walking their golden retrievers. She'd introduced herself as Chloe, and waited for recognition to bloom on his face. He’d frowned, trying to place her, but the expression quickly faded. He wasn't seeing her, she realised. She pointed out a small scar he had on his chin, the result of a clumsy fall. A flash of confusion crossed his features. “Huh," he said, and then, "well, good to meet you, Chloe." She found herself lingering near him, offering advice on his dog's training. She found herself trying to help his dog, in a way.

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