sympathetic - Story 146654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged. "I miss you. So much." A quick glance revealed the message had been sent to his ex-wife's new boyfriend, a man he'd only met once. Thomas groaned, his stomach doing an unpleasant flip.

He imagined the guy’s reaction: a look of confusion, then, probably, an amused smirk. He hated making this man uncomfortable. He wanted things to be peaceful.

He quickly deleted the message from his phone. He texted a new, awkward apology to the recipient. He felt awful about it, a genuine sense of upset that he couldn't quite name.

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