sympathetic - Story 146108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that amplified the silence in the office. Maria watched as Thomas, her replacement, struggled with the client database. His brow furrowed in concentration, and she couldn't help but feel a strange connection.

She spent the day creating cheat sheets, highlighting the most important data. She walked him through the intricacies of the system. She shared her own personal tips and tricks.

She showed him the hidden functions and shortcuts that she had taken months to discover. She even offered to stay late, helping him practice. It felt like a farewell.

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