empathetic - Story 41910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen in the computer lab flashed the headline, and a sense of grief settled over him. He remembered Ms. Chen, the dedicated computer science professor who always went the extra mile to help her students. He recalled her boundless energy, her passion for coding. The possibility of losing her, of losing that shared passion, was a bitter pill to swallow. He felt a deep sense of loss, and the need to do something, anything, to make the situation a little less difficult for everyone.

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