sympathetic - Story 146560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment was filled with the quiet clatter of dishes. The usual lighthearted banter was absent. Across the breakfast bar, Maria was staring fixedly at her cereal, her shoulders slumped. The thought of a new pet always made her smile, and now that smile was gone.

Liam, her roommate, felt a sharp ache. He knew how much Maria had longed for a cat, how she would nurture it and love it.

He thought about the lonely nights she spent at home, and the cat always made her happy.

He cleared his throat. “Maybe… maybe we could at least look at some shelters?” he suggested, his voice sounding oddly small. He knew the chances were slim, but it was the best he could offer right now.

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