sympathetic - Story 146756 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the envelope, its delicate design a mockery of the harsh words that must have been inside. John had always been good at avoiding confrontation. This letter was his reckoning. He sat on the worn couch, its springs groaning under his weight. He felt a deep sense of wrongness. The shadows of the room seemed to lengthen as he read the apology, each line a sharp stab. He ran a hand through his hair, the movement slow and deliberate, a physical expression of the turmoil in his mind.

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