empathetic - Story 41845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The incessant barking of the new puppy next door had driven Sarah to the brink. She craved silence, the quiet she needed to focus on her work. But the image of a small, confused puppy alone in a new house surfaced in her mind.

She grabbed a bag of puppy treats and walked towards her neighbour’s.

"Hi," she said hesitantly, knocking on the door. "I'm Sarah from next door. I heard the barking, and well, I'm sure it's overwhelming. Do you have any treats?"

She waited for the neighbour to appear, ready to offer assistance, knowing that a new puppy was a lot to manage.

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