sympathetic - Story 146702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the break room hummed, casting a sterile glow on Emily and David, both hunched over their respective lunches. Emily noticed David's sandwich was practically untouched, his gaze fixed on his phone.

He muttered something under his breath.

Emily cleared her throat, then spoke. "Rough day?" She'd seen the way the boss had been riding him.

He looked up, a shadow of weariness in his eyes. He shook his head slowly. "Just... a lot." He hadn’t been around long.

“Hey," she said softly, “Did you say Camp Green River? No way, I went there too!”

His face cracked a tiny bit, and his shoulders seemed to relax slightly.

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