sympathetic - Story 146344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dusty yard seemed to hum with the echoes of forgotten laughter. Amongst the discarded dolls and broken wagons, Michael recognized him instantly: Captain Fuzzybottom, his childhood protector. The bear was missing an eye and his once-stout frame looked deflated.

He bent down, gingerly picking up the bear. Memories flooded him – the comfort of Captain Fuzzybottom's presence during storms, the secret adventures they shared. His throat constricted with something he couldn’t quite name.

"How much for the pirate?" he managed to ask, his voice hoarse. The woman selling the items pointed to a handwritten sign. Michael didn’t even glance at it. He simply paid, feeling a strange sense of obligation.

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