sympathetic - Story 146569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I found myself rereading the texts. My best friend, Sam, had organised a huge bonfire night, the same night I'd planned a casual dinner. I knew he was craving the attention. I felt a tug of sadness for the attention I wouldn't have.

I sighed and began getting ready. I chose a bright, colourful shirt. I knew he'd look amazing tonight.

I made sure all the candles were lit and the music was playing, ready for when people started arriving. I hoped Sam had a really good time, even if it wasn't here.

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