sympathetic - Story 146209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As the tow truck driver tightened the winch, a knot formed in Leo’s stomach. His car, a battered but reliable old sedan, was more than just transportation; it was freedom. It was how he got to his volunteer work at the animal shelter. The driver gave him a dismissive look, not even a nod, as if he was nothing. He knew he should have been more diligent about the expired registration. He rubbed his eyes, feeling the exhaustion of his long day, and the weight of the coming days without the car.

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