sympathetic - Story 146164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The speeches were underway, and Eleanor fidgeted in her chair. The room buzzed with the happy occasion, but the air around her felt thick with unspoken history. Across the room, she saw Mark, her former fiancé. His face seemed etched with a quiet stillness.

Later, during the dance, she saw him standing alone. The band played a slow song. She felt a magnetic pull towards him, a desire to offer him some sort of comfort.

She approached him slowly. “You alright?” she asked, her voice barely a whisper. He looked at her, his eyes filled with a certain subdued emotion. She felt a wave of sadness wash over her as she took a moment to study his face. He nodded, then looked back to the dance floor, and the awkwardness was palpable.

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