sympathetic - Story 146387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the art gallery seemed to mock the vibrant colors of the paintings. Both of them, Anna and Ben, had come to see the same exhibit. They had also, it turned out, come to see the same woman. Ben kept running his hand over his chin. Anna watched him, and felt this wave of heaviness. There was nothing to say. She took a step closer, just a small gesture of solidarity in the wake of the truth.

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