sympathetic - Story 146653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text read: "Found the missing cat! He's safe. Sorry for the worry." It was meant for her sister, but somehow, it had gone to the new detective in town, a man who already seemed to dislike her. She had been searching for her cat for days.

A wave of heat rose to her cheeks. She imagined him reading the message, his expression unreadable, and then, inevitably, a stern lecture about disturbing the peace. She had been very worried.

She quickly grabbed her coat and her car keys. She needed to tell him the cat was safe. She needed to make amends. She drove fast.

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