sympathetic - Story 146276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had seen it coming, of course. He knew his role in the marketing department was on the line since the acquisition. Still, the reality of it felt like a cold fist in his gut. He was being moved to the archives. He watched as the new marketing director, a woman with a glacial smile, began her presentation. He saw Mark, a young intern, looking bewildered. "Don't let them change you," he mumbled, mostly to himself, but loud enough for Mark to hear. "Hold on to the things you enjoy."

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