empathetic - Story 41623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah felt a jolt of anxiety when she saw the follow request from Miss Peterson, her art teacher. Sarah’s account was a kaleidoscope of vibrant self-portraits and experimental photography; a true reflection of her soul. She wondered what Miss Peterson thought of it. She imagined judging eyes.

During the art lesson, Miss Peterson seemed extra quiet, her usual bubbly energy subdued. Sarah caught her looking at her sketch pad more than once. The air felt thick with an unspoken something. Sarah felt her own chest tighten. Maybe Miss Peterson was feeling judged, too.

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