sympathetic - Story 146655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office was quiet, the fluorescent lights humming. Chloe’s hand had slipped while texting her boss, and a private message about her vacation plans was now sitting in the inbox of the company’s notoriously difficult IT guy, Mr. Evans. The message included a not-so-flattering comment.

Her cheeks flushed crimson. She pictured him, stooped over his computer, his face a mask of disapproval. The prospect of facing him tomorrow made her want to disappear.

She swallowed hard and got up from her desk. She slowly walked to his office, a tight feeling in her chest.

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