sympathetic - Story 146168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The joyous occasion was bittersweet for Sophia. She caught sight of Alex, her ex, and the realization of what was lost hung heavily in the air. He was talking and smiling, trying to enjoy himself.

Later, he excused himself during the toasts. Sophia found herself watching him as he disappeared toward the back of the venue.

She followed, finding him outside, leaning against a tree, smoking. She stood there, watching him, unsure of what to do. His shoulders visibly tensed. She stepped closer. "You okay?" she asked, her voice barely audible. He turned, and looked at her.

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