empathetic - Story 41890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You didn't know?" The real estate agent's voice, brimming with surprise, echoed in my mind. Mrs. Gable, with her faded floral dresses and the sweet tea she made, had purchased the entire block.

The news landed like a lead weight in my gut. I thought of all the people she could help now, all the good she could do, and all of the opportunities she'd missed.

I went over to her house, and told her that the neighborhood was still lucky to have her. I told her that she made the best tea. I wasn't sure if she believed me.

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