empathetic - Story 41810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You have a sister." These words filled Thomas with a sense of unease. He knew the complexities of families, the secrets they held. He learned about her, her challenges, the life she had led. A sense of responsibility overwhelmed him.

He knew she needed support. He couldn't ignore her. Thomas decided to take action, offering whatever assistance she needed. He started making phone calls, organizing resources, and making plans. He would reach out and ensure she wasn't alone.

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