sympathetic - Story 146413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, now," Martha muttered, finding the wallet on the bus. It felt heavy with what looked like a significant amount of money. Her tired eyes scanned the contents. A faded photo of a smiling child. A crumpled receipt from a toy store.

Her own grandson was starting school next week, and she was stretched thin financially. The temptation was strong. She gripped the cold metal railing for support.

Martha sighed, placing the wallet on the seat beside her. At the next stop, she would get off and take it to the station. The child in the photo tugged at something deep within her.

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