empathetic - Story 41842 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mr. Henderson's shaking hand tapped on Leo's door. Leo peeked through the peephole, recognizing the old man. The amplified guitar riffs from Leo's band practice were probably the culprit. His stomach churned.

He opened the door wide, the music momentarily silenced. Mr. Henderson's face was etched with a mixture of distress and fatigue.

"I'm so sorry, sir," Leo blurted, instantly contrite. "We'll quiet down, I promise." He winced, picturing his own grandfather's bad back and how loud music could feel even in another room.

Leo grabbed a nearby bottle of water, offering it to the older man. “Come in for a minute. Let me get you something to drink."

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