sympathetic - Story 146518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The team bus was idling, ready to leave for the away game. Coach Davis stood at the back of the bus, his hand gripping the railing so tightly his knuckles were white. He knew he had to inform James, and it was the hardest part of his job.

He watched James from the corner of his eye, smiling, talking to his teammates, completely unaware of what was about to happen. He felt for the kid, he knew how much this meant to him.

He had to do it before everyone. He beckoned James over and pointed to the empty seats at the front. He knew what this trip to the front of the bus was for. The look on his face would shatter him. He closed his eyes as he began to speak.

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