empathetic - Story 41989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news seemed to suck the air from the room. David, as always, felt the plight of others. He thought of the older gentleman downstairs who had always been kind to him and his family. The man would not be able to afford a mortgage.

He found himself walking the halls, his shoulders slumped. He felt an unusual heaviness in his chest, as if a physical weight had been placed upon him.

He was overwhelmed with concern for everyone who might be hurt by the news. He began looking online for resources to help people with housing needs.

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