empathetic - Story 41788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the pictures blurring through his tears. He remembered the treehouse he and his brother had built in the backyard, the countless games of hide-and-seek. The listing was impersonal, devoid of any hint of the life lived within those walls. He wanted to reach out, to warn the future occupants about the creaky stairs and the drafty windows. He wanted them to know it was more than just bricks and mortar. He felt a pull towards them, an unseen connection.

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