sympathetic - Story 146754 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office, the air stuffy with the scent of old wood and leather. He sat across from her, the letter a fragile piece of evidence in his hands. Sarah, his ex-wife, had finally reached out. He hadn’t known how to react. A tightness settled in his stomach, a physical manifestation of the years of hurt that had been inflicted. He cleared his throat. He’d hoped for something, some kind of resolution, but not like this. He simply wished she was well.

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