sympathetic - Story 146705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened, revealing a frantic-looking Carol, juggling a stack of files. The strap of her bag had slipped off her shoulder, threatening to spill its contents. I was already halfway through the door, my heart quickening.

"Need a hand?" I asked, reaching for a runaway file.

She looked up, startled. "Oh, thank you!" Her cheeks were flushed.

As I helped her gather the rest, her name tag caught my eye. "Camp Whispering Pines? No way! I went there when I was younger."

Her face lit up with a genuine smile.

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