sympathetic - Story 146584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From her perch in the sound booth, Maya watched the rehearsal. The stage was awash in the harsh glare of the spotlights, and the lead singer belted out her lyrics. She felt the tears welling, not for herself, but for the singer. The raw emotion she poured into the song moved her.

Maya felt her throat constrict as she watched him struggle with the high notes. She knew the work it took. Her fingers twitched, itching to change the mix to help the singers.

He was pouring his heart out, and he was vulnerable. Maya, through the glass, raised her thumb up, giving the singer a sign of encouragement.

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