sympathetic - Story 146549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He scrolled through the private feed, the hidden account of his daughter, Sophia. The carefully crafted image, the carefully chosen words, the comments, all of it gave him a glimpse into a life he didn't know. He felt a sharp pang of… something he couldn't name. He felt a sudden ache in his chest.

He realized he was seeing a girl who was trying to find herself, a girl who was experimenting, making mistakes, and learning. He remembered the frustrations of his own youth, the confusion, the yearning to belong. He understood the need to create.

He walked to the kitchen and grabbed a beer. He would offer it to Sophia, and they could watch a movie together, side-by-side. He hoped that he could offer the space for her to talk.

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