sympathetic - Story 146688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The persistent "ping" of the computer server now echoed in the house. Software coding had always been Mark's escape, a world of logic and creation. Now, his son, fifteen-year-old Alex, had taken it over.

Alex was a natural, a coding prodigy. Mark had tried, on many occasions, to share his interest. Now, he felt the same desire.

Mark watched Alex work, the boy's fingers flying over the keyboard, his eyes glued to the screen. He knew that the boy was already surpassing him.

Mark approached the boy's desk. "Need any help?"

Alex looked up, a faint smile playing on his lips. "Actually, yeah. I'm stuck on this algorithm..."

Mark took a seat and leaned in, his own fingers itching to get back to the familiar work. A smile grew on his face.

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