sympathetic - Story 146026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been in a bad mood all day. Then the painting came – a bright, colorful thing that depicted a child, his niece, playing with a giant, rainbow-colored fish. He knew instantly who it was: Finnegan. His invisible friend, who would always make him laugh when he was younger.

He found himself smiling at the vivid artwork, a wave of warmth spreading through his chest. It made him think about his niece, and how happy she seemed. He knew what it was like to rely on such a friend.

He resolved to bring her a gift, a set of paints. He knew he didn't have much to give, but he hoped it would be enough.

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