sympathetic - Story 146029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital room was bright, sterile, and filled with the low hum of machines. Leo, her nephew, looked up at her, and wordlessly handed her a drawing. There was a drawing of a small child, holding hands with a glowing wolf.

Sarah’s heart skipped a beat. She knew who it was: “Lupo.” Her imaginary friend. She had forgotten all about him, until now.

She remembered all the times he’d comforted her during the tough times in her childhood. She knew what it was like to feel vulnerable and scared.

She stroked the drawing. "Who is this?" she asked. Leo smiled, "That’s my best friend." She smiled back, a knot of emotion tightening in her chest.

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