sympathetic - Story 146742 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always felt a kinship with that old maple. Mark had watched it for years, its leaves turning from green to gold each autumn, a dependable presence. Now, the tree lay in pieces, the storm having ripped it asunder. He imagined the effort Mrs. Henderson would have put into tending the tree.

The sight of the damage made his stomach clench. He didn't know what to do, but he knew he couldn’t just stand there and stare. He walked to the edge of his property, toward the fallen trunk.

“Oh, Mrs. Henderson,” he murmured, his voice barely a whisper, “that’s… a mess.” He thought of the hours of work and care invested by her.

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