sympathetic - Story 146452 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the small, plastic test tube, the label still blurry with condensation. The words on the website swam before his eyes: "Significant Family History Discrepancy." David had always known he didn't quite *fit* with his parents, a quiet, scholarly boy raised by boisterous sports enthusiasts. He hadn't dwelled on it, until now. He called his mother, his voice a tremor he couldn't control. "Mom, I…I need to ask you something." She rushed to his side and held his hands, her own face etched with concern. He felt a deep tenderness for her, for the lie he now knew she must have lived.

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