empathetic - Story 41621 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of Mrs. Gable’s classroom, mirroring the storm brewing in Maya’s stomach. She'd just seen a notification: Mrs. Gable, her English teacher, had requested to follow her on Instagram. Maya knew she posted a lot, mostly silly things, but also some vulnerable, angsty poetry. A blush crept up her neck.

Maya avoided Mrs. Gable’s gaze in class, pretending to be engrossed in her notes. Later, she saw Mrs. Gable standing near the door, looking lost in thought. Maya considered approaching her, maybe offering a quick, "Everything okay?" but then hesitated. What if Mrs. Gable felt embarrassed? Maya chewed her lip, the taste of metal suddenly prominent.

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