sympathetic - Story 146172 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, the CEO, huh?" Chloe laughed a little too loudly, trying to mask the tremor in her voice. Sarah’s elaborate stories of boardroom battles and international travel had always felt… off. Now, seeing Sarah’s cramped apartment, a single microwave meal sitting on the counter, the truth hit Chloe with a thud. She wanted to believe the tales, but the truth was undeniable. She took a deep breath, fighting the lump in her throat. “Hey,” Chloe began, her voice softening, “Wanna watch a movie tonight? My treat."

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