sympathetic - Story 146740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked into the empty apartment, and his stomach clenched. The space felt enormous, echoing with the absence of his friend, Jamie. The moving boxes were stacked high in the corner, a stark reminder of the impending departure. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture failing to calm the turmoil inside him. He remembered the countless movie nights, the inside jokes, the shared history that was now about to be geographically distanced. The silence of the apartment felt deafening.

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