sympathetic - Story 146636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat in the chair, the letter clutched tight in his hand. Michael had written it to his childhood dog, a loyal companion who had been a constant source of comfort. The letter was filled with adoration and thanks. Reading it, his eyes stung, and the world seemed to tilt slightly. He closed his eyes, remembering the feel of the dog’s fur, the wet nose nudging his hand. The memories, once comforting, now felt tinged with a deep ache.

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