sympathetic - Story 146278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee usually soothed him. Today, it felt bitter, like his impending move to the human resources department. He noticed Carol, his assistant, looking at him with a mix of concern and… something else. Her own position was at risk. He managed a smile and said, "It's all about adaptability, right, Carol? Just… keep your head down and the work will keep on coming." He hoped, perhaps, that she would be okay.

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