sympathetic - Story 146438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new food truck, "Stella's Empanadas," was parked right on the corner, and Maria just had to see it. It was the exact recipe her grandmother had used, the same way she had always made them. It was a replica.

Her heart pounded in her chest as she approached. A young woman was taking orders, her face bright and her smile wide. It wasn't the woman's fault. It was the situation.

Maria stepped back, the delicious aroma of the empanadas suddenly tasting bitter. She felt a tremor in her hand as she pulled her scarf tighter around her. She turned away, the familiar street suddenly feeling foreign.

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