sympathetic - Story 146169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding was a spectacle of love and celebration, but for Daniel, it was a minefield. The sight of Chloe, his former partner, was a constant reminder of their failed relationship. She was laughing and chatting, but her eyes held a certain guardedness.

As the night wore on, the forced cheerfulness seemed to weigh her down. He saw her wander off, away from the party.

He found her in the ladies’ room, her back to the door, hands on the sink. He knocked softly. “Everything alright?” he asked, his voice gentle. She turned, her eyes red-rimmed. She nodded and wiped her eyes. He knew he should leave, but he lingered for a moment, a knot forming in his stomach.

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