sympathetic - Story 146646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill ran down Elena’s spine, despite the warmth of the office. She reread the email, each word a hammer blow against her chest. *Restructuring.* *Synergies.* The corporate jargon felt like a mockery.

She thought of Mark, the software engineer who always wore silly socks. Would he be okay? He was so brilliant. She thought of Brenda, who was always eager to volunteer for anything.

Her chest ached. She needed to do something. She needed to reach out. She picked up her phone to text her closest coworkers, a simple message: "Are you okay?" followed by a string of emojis.

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