sympathetic - Story 146693 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the conference room seemed to shrink, closing in on Liam as he waited. Across the table, Mark, his rival for the promotion, looked composed, his tie perfectly knotted. Liam found himself feeling odd.

The presentation felt like a lifetime ago. Hours spent perfecting slides, rehearsing every word. Now, the outcome hung in the balance, and he knew how much this meant to Mark, who had a young family and mounting debt.

He recalled Mark's infectious laughter, the way he always had time for everyone. Liam found himself silently wishing the best for his competitor, even though he knew it meant bad news for him.

"You okay, Liam?" Mark said, his tone kind.

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