sympathetic - Story 146752 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the letter, its pristine white a stark contrast to the dust that coated his desk. His jaw clenched. He felt a profound pang of something he couldn't quite name. He’d kept the rejection letter tucked away, hidden. Years later, he was the one who was sending an apology. He reached for his pen, the metal cold against his palm, and began to write. The words flowed easily, each one a stone of regret he was slowly pushing up the hill. His chest felt tight.

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