empathetic - Story 41948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pages were filled with delicate calligraphy, a stark contrast to Daniel’s usual, messy handwriting. The story, a fictional account of their relationship, revealed the ways she had hurt him. He saw it. He got it.

She read of her insecurities, her fear of commitment, the times she pushed him away. The words were a gentle scolding, a longing for connection. She wished she had seen it.

She closed the book, the sound echoing in the silent room. She needed to tell him… something.

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