empathetic - Story 41759 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach clenched as she read the letter. It was from a woman she had once judged harshly, a woman she had whispered about behind her back. The woman admitted to her own flaws, to her own insecurities, and to the pain she had caused by her actions. She felt shame well up inside her. She stood by the window, watching the leaves swirl in the wind, a metaphor for the mess she'd made. She recognized a shared fragility, a shared humanity. It wasn't about her anymore, it was about the other woman, and the weight of their mistakes.

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