sympathetic - Story 146149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library, usually a haven of quiet comfort, now felt like a prison. The books, once a source of endless fascination, seemed dull and lifeless. The note was tacked near the staff room. "Ms. Everly, Retired." The words felt cruel.

She remembered the hours spent discussing literature, the insightful critiques, the quiet encouragement. The silence of the library echoed in her ears. He felt a deep sense of wrongness. She wanted to scream.

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