sympathetic - Story 146178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report flashed across the television screen. The man being accused of fraud? That was "Daniel the venture capitalist," his friend, and the man who was in trouble. He knew the truth. He'd seen the carefully staged life, the borrowed cars, the fake phone calls. A cold feeling spread through him. He sank onto the couch, feeling suddenly exhausted. Then, he got up, grabbed his coat, and headed out the door. He was going to find Daniel.

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