sympathetic - Story 146441 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the dorm window, mimicking the drumming in Maya's chest. She found her journal open on the desk, a post-it note awkwardly clinging to a page detailing a crush. Sarah, her roommate, was humming in the corner, pretending to study.

Maya swallowed, the lump in her throat making speech difficult. "Hey, Sarah," she managed, her voice barely a whisper.

Sarah turned, her eyes wide with a mixture of surprise and… something else Maya couldn’t quite decipher. "Oh, hey! Didn't see you there. Studying hard, huh?"

Maya focused on the chipped paint of the desk, tracing a crack with her fingertip. "Yeah… me too." She let it drop, and walked over to her bed.

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