empathetic - Story 41628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sam swallowed hard. Mr. Evans, his math teacher, had started following him on Snapchat. Sam's snaps were silly, light-hearted, and maybe a little too revealing of his true self. He panicked. He imagined the teacher seeing him in a way he wouldn't want to be seen.

He saw Mr. Evans at the football game later that week, looking awkward and out of place. Sam approached him, offering a friendly nod and a quick "Good game, sir?" Mr. Evans’ answering smile was small, but genuine, and Sam felt a sense of relief wash over him.

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