sympathetic - Story 146558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of Jasmine’s favorite coffee filled the apartment. Across the table, Alex was running a finger along the spines of her books, trying to distract herself.

The image of the adorable kitten that Jasmine had been talking about for weeks danced in Alex’s mind. She knew how much Jasmine loved animals.

She felt a pull in her stomach. Jasmine always seemed to know the right words to say, and always knew how to cheer Alex up.

She knew she had to say no.

“I’m just... worried about the financial commitment," she said, her voice strained. She felt a sharp, unexpected pain behind her eyes.

Jasmine didn't reply, her gaze drifting out the window. The silence hung heavy, almost suffocating.

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