sympathetic - Story 146439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam watched the commercial, showcasing "Aunt Millie's Apple Pie." The recipe was his grandmother's, a legacy he'd felt honored to carry on. It was now being used by a big chain store.

He felt a tightening in his gut, a subtle ache that intensified with each passing second. He loved his Aunt Millie, and he loved his grandmother. The thought of the recipe being mass-produced and stripped of its personal touch didn't sit well.

He rested his head on his hand. The commercial ended, but the feeling lingered. He thought of his grandmother's kitchen, filled with the warmth and love that had shaped his childhood. A long, slow sigh escaped his lips.

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