sympathetic - Story 146435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Grandma Gertie's Gingerbread" now dominated the snack aisle. Sarah felt a wave of emptiness wash over her as she looked at the packaging. It felt like a part of her family had been stolen.

She touched the worn photograph of her grandmother on her kitchen counter, her face set with a gentle smile. She had spent countless hours with her, learning the secrets of the recipe.

Sarah's throat tightened. The thought of someone else profiting from that legacy felt wrong. She poured herself a glass of water, her hand shaking. The gingerbread, once a symbol of warmth and family, now felt like a missing piece of herself.

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