empathetic - Story 41986 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words on the paper swam before Maya’s eyes. She reread the notice, the cold, clinical language grating against her. She thought of Maria, the woman who cleaned the common areas, Maria would surely lose her job.

She paced her apartment, her hands wringing.

The thought of Maria's plight gnawed at her. She resolved to do something. She put on her coat, ready to walk to Maria's apartment and explain the notice, in case the woman couldn't read English. She had to show she cared.

She found Maria sitting on her stoop, tears streaming down her face. Maya sat next to her, sharing a silent moment.

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