sympathetic - Story 146297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit her like a punch. "Postponed indefinitely." Sarah stared at the notice on the community board, the words swimming before her eyes. It was the annual Christmas party for the local kids, something she always spearheaded. The faces of the children, their eagerness, their excitement for the presents and the fun, flashed through her mind. She thought of all the effort she and the other volunteers had put in. It felt like a small part of her had died.

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