empathetic - Story 41627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a lead weight in Amelia's stomach. Mr. Harrison, her drama teacher, was following her on Facebook. Amelia knew she posted a lot about her theatre projects, but also a lot about her difficulties with school and her complicated family dynamics. She wanted to quickly close the app.

During rehearsal that day, Amelia stumbled over her lines. She saw Mr. Harrison studying her, a furrow in his brow. He didn’t correct her; instead, he gently steered her toward a quiet corner, talking to her quietly about the scene. Amelia noticed a kindred spirit in his voice.

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