sympathetic - Story 146319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The Spanish textbook on the nightstand made Elena's breath catch. Her wife, Sofia, had been less talkative than usual. Elena had assumed it was due to work stress.

She knew Sofia missed her family and the vibrant culture she came from. Elena's lack of fluency had always been a barrier, a source of quiet frustration. This, the textbook, was an olive branch.

She carefully picked it up, running a finger along the cover. It was a tangible expression of love. When Sofia walked into the room, Elena turned toward her with a warm smile.

"Hey," she said, her voice gentle.

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