sympathetic - Story 146507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shrill bark that filled the air was not a joyful one. This time, it was a little terrier mix called Pepper, who had found a new escape route under the newly-planted hedge. The new owners looked exhausted.

Mark, tending his own garden, saw the frantic little dog. He imagined the frustration of the owners, and their obvious love for the pup.

He gave a gentle whistle, trying to coax the dog. He gently scooped her up, then walked back to the owner's gate. He could only imagine the stress of the new home and the new dog.

He spoke, his voice unusually gentle, "She made a break for it again."

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