empathetic - Story 41897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection notification on the computer screen throbbed in front of me. After all the sacrifices, all the late nights... The student next to me, Thomas, was also staring at his screen. His shoulders were slumped.

My breath hitched. I knew the weight of this feeling. The doubt. The despair.

I said out loud, "Let's go. We'll find a bench and just sit. No pressure. We don't have to talk, just be."

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