sympathetic - Story 146626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David clicked the notification. "Mr. Rodriguez is now following you." He’d made a joke on TikTok making fun of the school's dress code. And he knew that he had also made a TikTok dancing to a song that Mr. Rodriguez had used during a recent lesson. Now, his teacher would see it all.

He felt his cheeks flush. He was always trying to be funny, but now he felt… embarrassed.

In class, Mr. Rodriguez gave him a look, the corners of his mouth twitching. David tried to ignore it, but he could feel his own smile stretching across his face in response. It was hard to tell how he felt, but he knew he wanted to be liked by his teacher.

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