sympathetic - Story 146157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news came through a group chat. The email confirmed what Sarah already knew. Emily had gotten the job. She couldn't bring herself to respond. She didn't want to spoil the joy.

She walked away from her desk, the click of her heels echoing. She couldn’t face the happy congratulations.

She made her way to the rooftop. The wind whipped her hair across her face. She closed her eyes, letting the cool air wash over her.

She knew how much this meant to Emily. She would have been happy, truly. But not now. Her breath hitched, and she felt a sharp pain in her chest.

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