sympathetic - Story 146345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning mist clung to the grass, giving the yard sale a melancholic air. Lily's heart skipped a beat when she saw him. Mr. Snuggles. The bear’s fur was matted, his nose threadbare, and a single button was missing from his chest.

“Oh, Mr. Snuggles,” she breathed, a gentle smile gracing her lips. She remembered the countless nights they'd spent together, the whispered secrets, the quiet companionship. The sight of him, discarded and forgotten, sent a wave of tenderness through her.

“How much?” she asked the young girl manning the table, her tone soft. She reached into her purse without hesitation, placing the few coins in the girl’s outstretched hand. The girl, barely acknowledging her, counted the money and waved her away.

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