sympathetic - Story 146147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small coffee shop, their usual meeting place, was empty. The scent of roasted beans, usually comforting, felt cloying. "Closed for the foreseeable future," the sign read. Mr. Silva, the owner and the man who had taught him everything about the trade, was gone.

He sat at their usual table, tracing the rim of an empty coffee cup. The world felt a little less bright, a little less flavorful. The coffee shop, their sanctuary, felt abandoned. He could feel the stinging in his eyes.

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