empathetic - Story 41856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam’s chest constricted as he read the list. His mother, a librarian and lover of books, had wanted, more than anything, to “Write a novel.” He had always known that dream, tucked away like a precious jewel. He felt a sharp pang in his chest.

He remembered her, late at night, scribbling in notebooks. Liam took a deep breath, and he suddenly felt a compulsion to continue the dream for her. He would buy a new journal, and he would begin to write.

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