sympathetic - Story 146299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a chill despite the warmth of the day. The text read, "Party is off. I'm so, so sorry." It was for my brother, David, his graduation celebration. I knew how much he'd been anticipating it, the sense of accomplishment, the pride he'd feel. I felt a tightening in my chest, a sudden need to make it right somehow. My fingers fumbled with the phone, and I started composing a message to David to let him know I knew. I knew he was going to be disappointed.

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