empathetic - Story 41624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, crap," Leo muttered, staring at the notification. Mr. Diaz, the physics teacher, was now following him on Twitter. Leo’s timeline was a mix of memes, political rants, and complaints about homework. He instantly felt a wash of something that wasn’t quite fear.

He noticed Mr. Diaz in the staff room later, looking through paperwork. Leo decided to offer him a coffee, a way to break the ice. "Rough day, sir?" he asked quietly, trying for casual. Mr. Diaz offered a tired smile, and Leo saw a flash of his own frustrations in the older man’s eyes.

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