sympathetic - Story 146768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight stopped him in his tracks. His jaw clenched. He found it difficult to breathe. The once-familiar landscape felt alien, barren, and incomplete. The absence of the tree was a palpable thing, a void he could feel in his bones.

He ran a hand across his forehead, pushing back the strands of hair. He stood there, shoulders slumped, feeling the weight of the loss. The world felt muted, less alive. The sunlight seemed dimmer. The silence of the forest was deafening.

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