sympathetic - Story 146501 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scrawny beagle, a blur of tan and white, zipped past Maya’s ankles. Another escape. She sighed, watching the dog sniff at her rose bushes, oblivious to the fact he wasn't supposed to be there. The poor thing, cooped up all day.

She knelt, calling out a gentle, “Hey there, buddy.” He paused, tail giving a tentative wag.

His name was Buster, and he was always getting out. She knew the owners were busy, and she could tell they did what they could.

Maya got a leash from the shed and carefully clipped it to Buster's collar. She walked him back to the gate, a faint sadness tugging at her chest.

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