sympathetic - Story 146007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating the intricate swirls of her design on the man's chest. Clara felt a strange tightening in her chest. She had poured her heart into this piece. She imagined the pain, the patience, the final reveal in the mirror.

She thought of all the reasons someone might choose to carry her art. The man spoke about a shared love of her ideas. His voice was husky with emotion, and she found herself wanting to comfort him. The thought made her skin tingle.

Emotion: sympathetic

Cluster: Compassion / Love

PC1 (Valence): 1.13 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.75

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sympathetic. 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 sympathetic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sympathetic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sympathetic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`H`	0.521
`L`	0.421
`B`	0.401
`la`	0.338
`sympat`	0.305

Suppressed:

`iostream`	-0.334
`简直`	-0.306
`再び`	-0.305
`chẳng`	-0.296
`не`	-0.296