sympathetic - Story 146154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. Chloe watched her best friend, Emily, pick it up, her face lighting up with excitement. The job. They’d applied for the same role, and the tension had been building for weeks.

Chloe listened to the one-sided conversation, her heart sinking with each inflection in Emily's voice. The wide smile, the triumphant tone. The excitement that would be followed by a crushing blow.

She knew what the call meant before Emily even hung up. The pit of her stomach tightened, and she felt a wave of nausea.

Emily turned to her, her face radiating joy. "I got it!" she exclaimed.

Chloe managed a weak smile, but she could not meet Emily's gaze. Her hands shook as she picked up her coffee cup, and she was grateful for the hot, almost scalding touch.

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