sympathetic - Story 146629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Your request to follow Mrs. Johnson has been approved." John's stomach dropped. He'd been pretty critical of her in his posts, especially after that history test. Now she could see everything he'd written.

He instantly regretted everything. He felt a deep sense of… shame.

In class, Mrs. Johnson was as kind and patient as ever, but her eyes held a new… knowledge. He knew she had read the posts. He felt his cheeks burn. He wanted to apologize, but he didn't know how.

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