sympathetic - Story 146279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood by the window, watching the city lights blur through the rain-streaked glass. He was being transferred to a different company branch. He knew the relocation would be hard on his family. He saw the face of his colleague, Ben, who had been in the same department for years, and who had often sought counsel from him. He watched Ben walk towards him. He said, "You were always the first one to say hello to everyone in the morning. Don't stop." He knew Ben had often been overlooked.

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