sympathetic - Story 146447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art supplies felt dull in the sudden chill of the dorm room. Chloe was working on a painting on the table, and her journal was placed nearby, with a visible crease in the spine. Chloe often wrote of her artistic dreams and the pressures that came with them. Her roommate, Sam, was staring at the wall, biting her lip.

Chloe looked up, a trace of confusion in her eyes. "Oh, uh… hey, Sam," she said.

Sam didn’t respond, just kept staring forward.

Chloe then put her brush down. "Look, about the journal…" She faltered.

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