sympathetic - Story 146559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, sterile white of the veterinarian's office amplified the tension. Across from him, Ben was clutching a small, worn stuffed animal. His face was pale, his eyes red-rimmed.

Chris knew how much Ben was hurting.

He understood. He knew that Ben had been looking forward to this for weeks.

The puppy they'd planned on adopting was proving to be a challenge, a challenge that could be too much. Chris knew he had a duty to make this the easiest possible for Ben.

He leaned forward, placing a hand on Ben's arm. “Hey, it’s going to be okay,” he said, his voice raspy. He didn't want to admit it, but he hoped it would be.

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