empathetic - Story 41939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The carnations, a faded pink, sat on the doorstep of the nursing home. A splash of color in a world of muted tones. No card. Mrs. Henderson, a resident, was celebrating her 90th birthday today.

The nurse, Sarah, saw the flowers. She knew the weight that flowers can hold. Loneliness, the pain of being forgotten. She’d spend the day making sure the flowers were delivered.

She placed them beside Mrs. Henderson’s favorite chair. She sat with her and held her hand. She sat there in silence.

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