sympathetic - Story 146499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes stung as she stared at the email: 'Patent Denied - Similar to Existing Application.' Elena had poured every spare moment into developing her AI-powered tutoring program for underprivileged children. She wanted to give them a fighting chance, to make learning accessible. Now, all her hard work felt wasted.

She ran her hand over her face. She closed her eyes. She thought of the children, the faces that she would never get to help.

She slumped in her chair, a profound feeling of defeat crushing her. She tried to take a deep breath, but it felt impossible.

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