empathetic - Story 41690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That's a nice kick, Jess." Seeing his daughter, Jess, practicing her soccer routine was a trip down memory lane for Paul. He had loved the sport when he was younger. He watched her now, her energy, her determination, her constant practice, bringing back memories of his youth. The sting of a missed goal, the exhilaration of a winning shot. He knew the discipline and the teamwork involved. He had been a champion. He started to watch her games, cheering her on, and then, after a while, started to offer advice on her form. He missed the sport.

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