sympathetic - Story 146668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic clanging of the stalled elevator was the only sound. Sarah, usually so composed, had begun to tear up. I recalled the recent loss of her mother. The image of her grieving, heartbroken, flashed into my mind.

She wiped her eyes quickly, but the tears kept coming.

“Hey,” I said softly, my voice barely a whisper. “It’s okay. We’ll be out of here soon.” I knew the words were inadequate, but I didn't know what else to do. I wondered how I could help. I wanted to help.

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