sympathetic - Story 146506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of clanking metal, a telltale sign. Amelia knew it was the miniature poodle, Princess, having another go at the latch. She’d tried to warn the owner, but she knew the pressures they faced.

Amelia found the fluffy white dog sniffing around her prize-winning petunias. She couldn't help but smile.

She gently coaxed Princess toward the gate, her heart aching a little. She knew the woman who owned the dog worked incredibly hard.

She closed the gate behind the dog and her heart felt heavier than it should have.

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