sympathetic - Story 146727 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter, written on faded stationery, described the crushing disappointment and the sting of being passed over for a promotion at her grandfather's firm. Grace, reading her grandfather's words, felt a dull ache in her chest.

He had always presented a picture of success, of a life well-lived. She'd known he’d been ambitious, but this draft revealed a deeper hurt, a sense of betrayal. She closed her eyes, imagining the younger version of her grandfather, full of hope, then the slow fading of that hope.

Grace carefully put the letter back in the drawer, a new feeling forming within her, and deciding, finally, to research his business life more fully.

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