sympathetic - Story 146364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Daniel found the card after a particularly grueling day at work. The words “Have a great day!” seemed to mock him. His shoulders slumped. He felt a deep, unfamiliar tenderness. He didn't recognize the handwriting, but the sentiment felt… needed.

He sat on the porch step, the card resting on his knee, and thought about his colleague. He was always complaining. Daniel took a deep breath, went back inside, and pulled out a notepad. He started writing a list of things he could do to help his colleague. He added a note to his list to check in on him tomorrow.

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