empathetic - Story 41609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was filled with the scent of aged paper and forgotten tales. Chloe, going through her great-aunt's belongings, found a stack of pictures. One showed her great-aunt as a young woman in uniform, posing with a group of soldiers, her face radiant. The family had always spoken of her as a quiet homemaker, never mentioning any military service.

Chloe's breath caught in her throat. She imagined the experiences that shaped her great-aunt, the adventures that remained untold. She had been taught to believe one thing, and the truth felt more intense.

A wave of feeling washed over her, a connection to a past she had never known. She put the photograph carefully back in the box, her heart full.

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