sympathetic - Story 146746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the tree as soon as he opened his front door. Its roots, exposed and grasping, reached up like skeletal fingers. The oak that he and the Johnsons had always admired was now a pile of broken wood on their property. He knew this would be a difficult time for them, the Johnsons had always loved that tree.

He felt an unfamiliar tightness in his chest. His hands clenched into fists. He had to help. He would start with clearing the smaller branches, if he could.

He walked over to their property, gathering his courage. He hated to see them down. "Is everything okay?"

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