sympathetic - Story 146757 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter was tucked between the pages of a forgotten novel. Maria found it as she was clearing out her attic. A wave of emotion, unexpected and potent, washed over her. She recognized the familiar looping script. She traced the words, feeling a surge of something she thought she had long since buried. Her breath hitched. The dust motes danced in the sunlight, mirroring the turbulence within her. She set the book down and continued with her task, a new clarity washing over her.

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