sympathetic - Story 146758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It came as an email, a sterile communication in a crowded inbox. The subject line, a simple "My Deepest Regrets," chilled Leo to the bone. Years ago, the words that now filled his screen would have ignited fury. Now, they just left him empty. The cursor blinked on the screen, taunting him. He sighed and leaned back in his chair, the leather creaking in protest. He scrolled through the lengthy apology, each sentence a slow, deliberate admission of fault.

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