empathetic - Story 41937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The daisies were nestled on the bench outside the park. A little girl, perhaps six years old, pointed at them, her eyes wide with delight. No note. Who would leave daisies at a playground?

He watched the little girl’s joy, her innocent wonder. He knelt beside her, his breath caught in his throat. He’d spent countless hours here, his own childhood, dreaming.

He wondered who sent the flowers, and what story they held. He could spend the entire day and night trying to figure it out.

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