sympathetic - Story 146087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant thud of the hammer was a new addition to the neighborhood soundscape. I watched from my kitchen window as the construction crew erected the fence. It was for Ms. Abernathy, whose husband had recently passed away. The stories she had told about her husband, and their plans for the yard.

I recalled their anniversary trip last year, the beautiful pictures they had taken together. Now, she was alone.

I sighed, then went to make a plate of her favorite, the cinnamon rolls.

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