sympathetic - Story 146520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight room was quiet, only the clanking of weights breaking the silence. Coach Williams stood near the window, the image of the young man he had to cut, Chris, filling his mind. The thought left a hole in him.

He pictured Chris's face, the disappointment, the confusion. He knew how much he had invested in the team. He thought of his dreams, his aspirations, the hours he spent practicing. It felt like he was destroying a piece of him.

He turned and saw Chris walk in, his eyes shining with anticipation. The kid was eager to start training. He took a deep breath, and he started to speak, the words coming out in a slow and laborious way, the weight of his obligation crushing him.

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