sympathetic - Story 146388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the taxi felt thick with unspoken grief. Alex stared out the window, watching the city lights blur into streaks of color. Beside him, Chris sniffled, his shoulders shaking. They were both headed to the same address, a detail that had been revealed during the shared confession in the bar. He placed his hand on Chris's arm, a small, comforting gesture. The ride to their shared destination felt long and arduous.

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