sympathetic - Story 146509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The persistent yapping, a high-pitched, desperate sound, cut through the late afternoon quiet. Emily could see the Jack Russell terrier, Max, leaping at the broken fence. His owner had been ill lately.

She knew the strain they were under. She watched Max dash through the gap. He was searching for something.

She walked to the fence, and gently called his name. She knew this was happening more and more often.

She was surprised how much it was impacting her. She hated the sadness of it all.

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