empathetic - Story 41757 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived alongside a small, hand-painted wooden bird, a thing of simple beauty. It was from the woman who, as a child, had been his best friend. Years ago, he had been cruel, breaking their bond with a thoughtless word. Now, she was writing to offer her apologies. A fresh memory of the past, filled with joy and laughter, played in his mind. The painted bird sat on his desk, a tiny symbol of their shared past, and as he looked at it, he knew he couldn’t stay angry.

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