sympathetic - Story 146177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The truth, a stark and brutal reality, hung heavy in the air. John's "renowned professor" friend, Peter, was actually an adjunct instructor barely scraping by. The elaborate stories, the academic jargon, the air of authority… all a facade. John felt an almost physical pang as he considered Peter’s predicament. He remembered their shared dreams, the ambitions they once held. He found himself wandering towards the library, the place Peter was always at, and went in to see if he was there.

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