sympathetic - Story 146703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printer sputtered and coughed, spewing a mangled document onto the floor. Michael, normally stoic, visibly deflated. The deadline for the presentation was looming.

I quickly kneeled, starting to gather the scattered pages. He looked so defeated, his face reddening. I noticed he had a slight tremor in his hands.

"Ugh, I'm so sorry," he muttered, running a hand through his hair.

"No worries," I said, my voice steady. "We can fix it. Camp Redwood, huh? Small world." He looked as though he was about to cry.

His eyes widened, and a slow smile grew on his face. "Really? You too?"

"Yep. Remember the talent show disaster? You guys were hilarious."

He laughed a little, finally relaxing.

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