sympathetic - Story 146634 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air hung thick with the ghosts of forgotten things as David unfurled the letter. He had written it to his younger self, a boy grappling with confusion and fear. The letter was a pep talk, a beacon of hope, but it also acknowledged the pain he felt, a recognition of his struggle that left him breathless. He pictured his younger self, vulnerable and scared, and the image squeezed his heart. He felt a deep tenderness for that boy, a desire to reach back and offer a comforting hand.

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