sympathetic - Story 146609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun streamed through the attic window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Jessica sifted through a trunk, hoping to find some clues about her family's past. She had always felt a strange connection to her great-aunt, a woman who had passed away years before, leaving behind a legacy of silence.

Inside the trunk, Jessica found a collection of photographs, capturing her great-aunt’s life. The pictures showcased a woman of adventure, a woman with a strong spirit. The stories of her family spoke of her disgrace. Jessica felt a surge of tenderness.

She decided to seek out anyone who might have known her great-aunt, anyone who could tell her the stories of her life.

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