sympathetic - Story 146745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tree’s destruction felt personal. Emily remembered playing under that willow as a child, its branches providing a cool, shady haven in the summer heat. Now, it was sprawled across Mrs. Rodriguez’s lawn, blocking her driveway and looking utterly defeated.

Emily’s throat felt tight. She grabbed a bottle of water and went outside. She walked towards Mrs. Rodriguez's house, the leaves crunching underfoot. She knew the woman had to be in shock.

"Mrs. Rodriguez," she said quietly. "Are you hurt?"

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