empathetic - Story 41902 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam was on his way to his philosophy class when the announcement hit. He thought of Maria, the single mother in his English class who poured her heart into every essay. How would she afford to transfer? How would she manage to juggle classes with her two jobs and her child? He imagined the sinking feeling in her stomach as she realized her dreams could be crushed. He immediately veered off course, heading towards the student services building, imagining all the paperwork and the panic and the endless worry. He needed to find out how he could help.

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