sympathetic - Story 146130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant announcements blended into a monotonous drone, but they were still painful to hear. For Robert, the missed event was his daughter's dance recital. It was an event she'd been talking about for months. The idea of disappointing her made his stomach churn.

He paced the area in front of the gate. He wanted to feel some physical release. He ran a hand through his hair, over and over, trying to calm his nerves. He felt a profound sense of sadness.

He pulled out his phone, and saw a photo of his daughter on the lock screen, smiling widely. His eyes moistened. He made a vow to himself that he would make it up to her.

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