empathetic - Story 41668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air was getting harder to breathe. Susan started to pace. She was talking to herself as if she was trying to calm herself down. Opposite her, stood James, who had been sitting calmly since they were first stuck. Susan knew he was a veteran.

She sat next to James to try and stay as still as he had, and calm herself.

"How long have we been stuck?" she asked, her voice cracking. James didn't answer right away. He seemed to take his time, taking a deep breath and glancing at the door. "About three hours," he said quietly. He continued to stare at the door. "Do you want to talk? About what you're thinking?"

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