empathetic - Story 41869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A simple, painted stone, etched with the words "Be Kind," rested in the palm of Ms. Rodriguez's hand. It was from Daniel, a student who'd witnessed his mother's illness and struggled with financial insecurity. He always seemed to be putting up with something. The stone was a reminder of the trials she had witnessed him face.

She turned the stone over, feeling the smooth coolness against her skin. She had done her best to ensure Daniel felt safe at school. She pictured him, his face tired, but resilient.

A shiver ran down her spine.

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