empathetic - Story 41908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news blared from the loudspeakers in the library, and a sudden coldness spread through Amelia. She pictured the library staff, the familiar faces who'd helped her navigate the stacks countless times. She saw Mrs. Davies, always ready with a smile and a book recommendation. She imagined their shock, their fear. She felt a profound sadness for them. Ignoring her own concerns, Amelia walked to the front desk, wanting to reassure the staff that she understood their pain.

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