sympathetic - Story 146263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the community center. Inside, Sarah huddled in a corner, watching the cheerleading tryouts. Her face was pale, her expression blank. She bit her lip, the only physical sign of her deep inner turmoil.

The music pulsed, and the routines began. Smiles and bright colors filled the room, a stark contrast to the darkness that had settled around her. The bright atmosphere felt like a mockery of her dashed hopes.

She noticed her best friend, Emily, making the team. Emily looked over, her face beaming. Sarah forced a smile, but her expression betrayed her pain.

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