sympathetic - Story 146436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“The Secret Garden Cake,” the magazine raved. It was the cake her mother had always made. Amelia knew it, recognized the exact layers, the specific frosting style.

The cake was a family affair, a tradition. Amelia recalled the many holidays when she had helped, her mother humming happily beside her. Now, this… this felt deeply unsettling.

She found herself walking towards her mother’s old cookbook, the pages marked with floury fingerprints. She traced the recipe, her finger resting on the faded ink. A quiet resolution settled 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