empathetic - Story 41770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stark reality hit her like a physical blow. Jessamine arrived at the house to find a vacant space where the cedar had grown. The air felt thin and cold.

She stood there, frozen, the world seeming to tilt on its axis. The cedar had been a silent witness to her life, a constant, comforting presence.

She took a shaky breath, feeling the air fill her lungs. Her eyes, suddenly raw, scanned the area, trying to find some semblance of the familiar. She felt the weight of the world on her shoulders, the sorrow of absence.

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