empathetic - Story 41899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the dorm room was thick with unspoken disappointment. Both of us had just received our test results, and they were not good. Across from me, Alex sat staring at the floor, his face pale.

I looked at his defeated posture and my own disappointment felt smaller. I remembered studying with him, the hours of effort he had invested.

"Want to order pizza?" I asked. "Something we can actually enjoy. We will figure this out together."

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