The world tilted slightly for Chloe. Ms. Ramirez, her dance teacher, had started following her on TikTok. Chloe had danced her whole life, and had just began uploading routines. Her dancing was a way of expressing herself. She felt a surge of panic – had she been too vulnerable? Too revealing?

The next day in class, Chloe couldn't meet Ms. Ramirez’s eye. The teacher, however, just seemed… quiet. Chloe observed how she gave gentle corrections and extra encouragement to students who were struggling. It made her feel like perhaps they were sharing a space of vulnerability.

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:
H0.622
B0.603
L0.529
la0.414
sympat0.393
Suppressed:
iostream-0.441
chẳng-0.393
仿佛-0.359
не-0.352
দুপুর-0.344