sympathetic - Story 146585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The busker on the corner played a tinny, distorted version of her ballad, "Golden Days." Clara, huddled in a doorway, almost didn't recognize it at first. The tune was a mess.

The busker's guitar was out of tune. Her fingers danced across the strings with more confidence than skill. The music didn't sound the way she had intended.

She took a step closer, shielding her face with the collar of her jacket. She noticed the threadbare clothes, the worn guitar case. Her own heart ached and she was struck with sadness.

Clara dropped a few coins into the open guitar case and moved on, her own burdens feeling a little lighter in comparison.

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