sympathetic - Story 146690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the violin felt familiar to Marcus. He loved the instrument. He also felt something else, as he stood and watched his son, ten-year-old Leo, play.

Leo, his son, practiced with a dedication that Marcus hadn't known. Marcus had found the instrument for himself, years ago. Leo found it for himself, and now the father watched his son.

The boy was very good. Marcus was taken aback.

He watched Leo, and something tightened in his chest.

"Again?" Leo asked, after finishing a piece.

Marcus nodded, forcing a smile. “Yes. Again.”

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