empathetic - Story 41892 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the library, mirroring the storm brewing inside David. He had just received his midterm back, a crushing D. He'd spent every free hour studying. Beside him, Sarah was looking despondent; her expression etched with disappointment.

David's stomach flipped. He knew the feeling. The gnawing doubt, the fear of failure, the sinking feeling of everything you worked on being deemed as worthless.

He cleared his throat. "Sarah, you okay? Do you want to maybe get a coffee? My treat? We could work out a study group."

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