empathetic - Story 41629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Lily felt a prickle of unease when she saw that Ms. Patel, her biology teacher, was following her on Pinterest. Lily pinned everything from recipes to fashion to her deepest thoughts. She felt exposed.

The next day in class, Ms. Patel was unusually distracted, fumbling with her notes and missing a few key points of the lesson. Lily realized that maybe, she, too, was a person with complicated feelings. She watched Ms. Patel struggle through the lesson and found herself wanting to help.

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