empathetic - Story 41841 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pounding bass vibrated through Maya's floorboards, mirroring the uneasy thrum in her own chest. She recognized the rhythm; it was the new neighbors, finally unpacking their speakers. She sighed, remembering her own housewarming, the chaotic joy, the accidental decibel levels.

She hesitated, then grabbed a plate of freshly baked cookies, still warm. The clatter of her neighbor's door opening made her jump.

"Hey, sorry to bother you," she started, her voice soft. "I'm Maya, from next door. Thought you might want these. And, uh, if the music gets too loud, just... let me know?" She offered the cookies with a small smile, her gaze dropping to the floor.

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