sympathetic - Story 146197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old school building was a maze of echoing footsteps and whispered secrets. Walking through the halls, he felt like a time traveler. Mr. Harrison, his biology teacher, stood at the door, his gaze sharp and observant. Now, it was his daughter, Olivia, facing him.

He remembered the tests, the lab experiments, the endless memorization. He recalled the frustration, the occasional triumphs. Looking at Olivia, he felt a weight in his chest.

He hoped she would discover her own path, find her own success. He wanted her to enjoy the process, to experience the joys he had missed. As Olivia turned to wave, he felt a sudden lump form in his throat.

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