empathetic - Story 41647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria buzzed with a low, anxious murmur. Sarah, picking at a sandwich she couldn't bring herself to eat, overheard snippets of conversation, each phrase a fresh wave of unease. The sale. The layoffs. The unknown. The thought of the cleaning staff.

She watched Mrs. Rodriguez, the woman who had always greeted her with a warm smile, wipe down tables with an unusual grimace. The usual cheerful chatter was gone. Sarah walked over, her own lunch forgotten. She spoke with a gentle cadence, "How are you doing today, Mrs. Rodriguez?"

Mrs. Rodriguez looked up, her eyes reflecting a weariness Sarah had never seen. "I have no idea," she said. Sarah stood close, thinking of how to provide some form of peace. "I'm sure things will be alright."

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