sympathetic - Story 146057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ringing of the bell above the door seemed to echo the emptiness filling Jake. The ring, sitting there among the clutter, struck a chord deep inside him. He knew this ring. He knew the stories. He knew the loss that had led to it being here.

He could feel a lump rising in his throat. He ran a hand through his hair. His grandmother would've been so angry. He needed to get the ring out of this place.

He approached the counter, feeling the eyes of the shop owner on him. "I'd like to look at that ring," he said, his voice flat. He tried to hide the shakiness in his hands as he pointed to the item.

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