empathetic - Story 41859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach clenched. The list, found tucked into a childhood photo album, read: “Visit the Great Wall of China.” Clara felt a sob escape her throat. Her mother had always talked about it, the distant wonder of an ancient land. She had dreamed of walking the wall.

Clara imagined her mother, small and happy, traversing the ancient structure. She knew, then, that she had to go. The trip would be hard, and expensive, but she could not deny that wish.

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