sympathetic - Story 146073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up: "I'm at the library. Can you come?" It was from "BookwormBabe," the girl I'd confided in about my parents' arguments. I felt a clench in my chest. I knew from the tone of her messages that things weren't going well on her end.

I found her in the corner, surrounded by stacks of books, looking smaller than I remembered. Her hair was pulled back in a messy bun, and her eyes were red-rimmed. A soft whimper escaped her lips as I approached.

"Hey," I said gently, pulling out the chair next to her. The air in the library seemed to thicken with unspoken anxieties, and I knew what I had to do.

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