empathetic - Story 41619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As Jessica stood to speak, the air in the room felt thick and heavy. She glanced at her parents, sitting side-by-side. Their faces glowed, but she knew the reality. They had given everything to get here.

She was suddenly overwhelmed by the sacrifices she had witnessed, the tireless devotion. She saw how they'd put her first, always. She felt a familiar sting in her throat.

“Mom and Dad,” Jessica said, her voice choked. “I hope you know…” The words failed her, but her meaning was clear.

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