sympathetic - Story 146449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of instant ramen permeated the tiny space. Olivia found her journal on the floor beside the bed, its spine broken, and the pages slightly crumpled. The entry about her financial worries was visible. Her roommate, Emily, was sitting at her desk, avoiding eye contact and stirring a bowl of noodles.

Olivia didn’t say anything at first. She simply picked up her journal. The room felt suddenly stifling.

“Emily,” she said, her voice strained. “Are you hungry?”

Emily looked up, nodded and mumbled, "Yeah."

Olivia gestured toward the desk. "Want some?"

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