sympathetic - Story 146657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“OMG, the dress is hideous!” read the message, intended for a friend but sent to the bride’s mother. Maya's face crumpled. She could not imagine how bad the mother must feel.

She pictured the woman, beaming, excited, waiting for a response, and then receiving that. Her mouth felt dry.

She knew she had to talk to her. She braced herself. She began typing an apology, but then erased it. No. That was not enough.

She took a deep breath, and got to her feet.

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