sympathetic - Story 146677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights in the university canteen seemed to flicker erratically. Liam had just heard the news, a rumor confirmed by a flyer. Professor Schmidt was departing. He felt a profound sense of… something, he couldn’t name it.

His stomach churned. He remembered the countless hours spent discussing research, brainstorming ideas, and navigating the complexities of academia. He thought of his own struggles. He thought of his advisor's kindness.

He later found Professor Schmidt at his desk. “Are you… are you okay?” Liam managed to ask, his voice barely a whisper. The professor gave him a weary smile. He looked somehow smaller.

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