sympathetic - Story 146239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news came during her morning commute. Sofia saw the headline, and all the blood drained from her face. It was her diary, online, for anyone to peruse. A chill went down her spine.

She read the first few entries, her heart pounding in her chest. The words, so familiar, so personal, now exposed for the world to see. A wave of regret and shame washed over her. She knew that her younger self would be mortified if she knew.

Sofia closed her laptop, her hands shaking. She felt a deep ache inside, a sadness that threatened to consume her. She could not speak. She felt a deep sense of responsibility, and quietly, the thought that she needed to shield her younger self.

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