empathetic - Story 41698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the office felt charged. I caught a glimpse of Jessica in her office, sitting ramrod straight at her desk. I knew what she was feeling.

I understood the significance of this promotion for her. I'd seen her dedication, her passion, and the many hours she’d poured into her work. The thought of potentially thwarting her aspirations filled me with a sense of unease.

The silence in the office was deafening. I imagined how it would feel if I won. I knew Jessica would smile. But I also knew the hollow feeling that would come with winning.

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