empathetic - Story 41786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Listed today,” the email read. She’d known it was coming, but the reality still stung. She meticulously examined the listing, each photograph a tiny stab of nostalgia. The online description was devoid of emotion, a cold assessment of square footage and features. She thought of all the laughter that had echoed through those halls, all the tears that had been shed. She hoped the new owners wouldn't just see a house; she hoped they would see a home.

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