sympathetic - Story 146658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message, intended for her therapist, read: "Feeling overwhelmed and on the verge of a breakdown." It had gone to the CEO of her company, a man who already viewed her with suspicion. Her hands were ice cold.

She bit her lip, imagining the damage. She knew she had made a mistake that could cost her everything. She thought of her team.

She had to do something. She had to address this, even if it was humiliating. She began drafting an email to her boss.

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