sympathetic - Story 146127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The boarding screen flashed: “Delayed.” Sarah felt her throat close up. Her wedding anniversary, and she was stuck in this metal, airless box. The weight of the situation seemed to press down on her.

She closed her eyes, picturing her husband, the way his smile crinkled at the corners. She should have been with him, celebrating, not trapped in an airport. It seemed so unfair.

She pulled out her phone and sent a text: "Thinking of you. So sorry." Her fingers trembled slightly as she typed the brief message. She wanted to say so much more.

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