Mr. Johnson's mouth tightened as he read the accompanying note. A small, handcrafted wooden bird rested on his desk, sent by Chloe, a student he had once suspected to have ADHD. It was a simple thing, but the care taken in its creation was evident.

He ran his thumb across its smooth, polished surface. He remembered the restless energy in Chloe’s eyes, the way she would fidget in her seat. He recalled advocating for her needs, fighting for her to get the support she deserved.

He felt a deep sense of connection to her experience.

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:
H0.622
B0.603
L0.529
la0.414
sympat0.393
Suppressed:
iostream-0.441
chẳng-0.393
仿佛-0.359
не-0.352
দুপুর-0.344