sympathetic - Story 146236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the first thing Maya saw when she woke up. The website address was bold, stark, and utterly unwelcome. Her entire high school diary had been digitized and uploaded, available for anyone to read. The world swam before her eyes.

She skimmed through the entries. Each one a painful reminder of her past self, filled with insecurity and the turbulent emotions of being a teenager. She felt a profound sting of vulnerability, each sentence a stab.

Maya closed her eyes, a single tear tracing a path down her cheek. She wished she could protect that girl, shield her from the harsh glare of the present. She felt a deep sadness, a heavy weight that settled in her chest, and she knew she wouldn't be able to escape its pull anytime soon.

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