sympathetic - Story 146696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office was eerily quiet, the usual background hum of keyboards and chatter silenced. Ben watched as Kevin slumped into his chair, his shoulders slumped like deflated balloons. He knew the promotion decision had been made.

They had started at the company around the same time, battling the same challenges and celebrating the same victories. Kevin, with his goofy grin and easy laugh, was the heart of the team. He was always there to offer a helping hand.

A knot formed in Ben’s stomach. He remembered Kevin's excitement, his earnest desire to lead the team. He couldn't help but feel a certain weight in his chest.

He walked over to Kevin's desk and simply said, "Hey man, everything alright?"

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