sympathetic - Story 146415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, bother,” announced Evelyn, her voice barely a whisper. She found the wallet tucked under a bush, its contents easily visible. A substantial amount of money. Her gaze fell on a worn business card inside with the word "Artist" printed on it.

Evelyn, recently widowed, understood the sting of loss, the emptiness. She knew the work it took to produce art, the passion, the vulnerability.

She decided to try to track down the artist; she would make a call, and hopefully return it.

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