sympathetic - Story 146300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the kitchen was deafening. "The celebration will not take place as planned." James read the announcement, his heart sinking. It was for his daughter's tenth birthday, and he'd promised her the biggest, best party ever. He visualized her face, her excitement, the anticipation he helped build up over the last few weeks. He felt a deep ache inside, a helplessness that made his hands tremble. He thought of what he could do to make her feel better.

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