sympathetic - Story 146692 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat washed over Michael as he saw Sarah return from the meeting. Her shoulders slumped, and her usual bright lipstick was missing. He didn't know the outcome of the promotion decision, but the sight of her disheartened posture was enough.

He'd spent the last few weeks secretly working with her on a presentation, offering pointers on public speaking. He saw how much it meant to her, how hard she had strived for the role. He knew she had a family to support.

Michael immediately walked over, placing a hand on the back of her chair as she settled at her desk. “Rough day?” he asked, keeping his voice light, trying to ease the sting.

He caught his own breath as he saw a lone tear form on her cheek.

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