empathetic - Story 41847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant drone of the lawnmower next door was making Emily crazy. She needed absolute quiet to study. The thought of that guy mowing his lawn on the weekends filled her with ire.

Instead of going over and arguing, she put on a pair of earplugs. She then thought about how she had wanted a lawnmower too, and then how that would have been an added expense.

Later, she baked him a pie. When she brought it over, she gave him a little wave, but said nothing.

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