sympathetic - Story 146579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding reception buzzed with chatter and clinking glasses. David was the best man. He stood in the corner, nursing a drink, watching his best friend, Robert, across the dance floor. Robert was dancing with his new wife. David felt a wave of sadness wash over him.

He had tried to tell Robert about the old days, the mischief they’d caused as kids, the dreams they’d shared. Robert just looked confused, and then apologetic. It was as if their past didn't exist for him. David felt a hollowness in his chest, a heavy feeling.

He finished his drink in one gulp and excused himself from the gathering.

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