empathetic - Story 41617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of cutlery and the murmur of conversation seemed miles away from Liam. He looked at his mother, a gentle smile on her face, but he saw the exhaustion etched around her eyes. He knew all the unseen work.

His mother, who had always been the emotional core of the family, seemed to be holding back tears. Her eyes were red-rimmed. A deep ache settled in his stomach.

"Mom," Liam said softly, “I… I can’t imagine.” He knew the years of worry and striving. He couldn’t begin to fathom.

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