sympathetic - Story 146647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the company logo seemed to mock David's emotional turmoil as he read the news. He crumpled the paper in his hands, then carefully smoothed it out. The feeling of loss was crushing. He remembered the first day he'd started here, the excitement, the camaraderie, the hope for the future.

He thought of the cleaning lady, Maria, who always remembered his name. She was one of the kindest people he knew. He remembered the last time they spoke, and how happy she was to have a job.

He decided he would buy her a little gift to lift her spirits. His heart sank as he thought of what could happen. His future here was uncertain. He would buy her a plant, something to remind her of life and growth.

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