The announcement had been delivered, and now John was left reeling. He thought of his team, the individuals who had put their faith in him. He wanted to do something.

He started walking, and found himself at the printer. He knew a few people were struggling with it. He fixed it, and the small act brought some form of solace. He noticed the assistant, with their usual friendly smile, hadn't been to their desk all day. He went to their desk.

He found them staring at their hands. He spoke softly. "Anything I can do?" The assistant jumped, startled, but managed a shaky smile. John felt a sense of relief, that he could do something.

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