sympathetic - Story 146630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Following you on Instagram," the message read. Mr. Green, her calculus teacher. Sarah felt a jolt. She'd been posting about her struggles with the subject, all the frustration and confusion. Now, he'd see her vulnerabilities.

She felt a wave of… something. She wasn’t sure what to feel.

During the next lesson, she found herself working harder, determined to show him that she could master the subject. She raised her hand, asking questions, her usual nervousness replaced by a quiet determination. She wanted him to see her effort, her… well, she wasn’t sure what she wanted him to see, only that the negative feelings had begun to fade.

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