empathetic - Story 41898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news of the internship rejection hung over the small office like a shroud. The other applicants were all in a similar state of shock. Across from me, Sarah, usually bubbly and optimistic, was barely moving.

I felt a knot in my stomach. I knew how much she'd wanted that placement.

"Sarah," I said quietly, "Can I walk with you on your way home? Just for company, if you want. We can get some food, too."

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