empathetic - Story 41783 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The “for sale” sign, a stark rectangle against the familiar brick of her family home, was a punch to the gut. The online listing was even worse. She pictured a realtor, cold and businesslike, showing the place to strangers. She imagined them critiquing the dated decor, the small closets. She felt a pang of something akin to sadness. She hoped they would see beyond the flaws, see the potential for warmth, for comfort, for love. She hoped they would feel something of what she had felt.

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