sympathetic - Story 146660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message read: "I messed up everything." It was meant for his partner, a cry for help. It was sent to his brother, a man who was already burdened by his own problems. The air felt thick with tension.

He pictured his brother's weary face, his tired eyes. He had already asked for too much. He didn't want to make his brother feel any worse.

He deleted the message. He shouldered his bag, and walked out the door. He felt a profound sense of responsibility, a need to shield someone from pain.

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