sympathetic - Story 146550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen glowed, illuminating her face as she scrolled through the secret account of her son, Liam. She felt a wave of… something. Was it sadness? Disappointment? She felt her lips tremble as she scrolled through the meticulously crafted image, the posts full of coded language.

She remembered the fear and the vulnerability of her own teenage years. The need to belong, the desire to be understood. The need to be seen. She understood.

She walked to Liam’s room and slowly opened the door. He was sitting at his desk, headphones on. She stood in the doorway for a moment, just watching him. She walked over and gently placed a hand on his shoulder. "Hey," she said, her voice soft. "Can we 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