sympathetic - Story 146774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold marble of the courtroom floor seemed to seep into Amelia's bones. Her brother, Daniel, stood tall and proud, receiving a standing ovation. Their father, a powerful senator, had left him the Senate seat and a vast fortune. The world applauded Daniel’s good fortune.

Amelia's inheritance? A small, dilapidated bookstore in a forgotten corner of the city, and a collection of her father's unpublished poems. She felt a familiar hollowness in her chest.

Daniel flashed her a self-satisfied smile, then turned to address the crowd. He spoke about his father's vision, his dedication to the people. Amelia glanced at the thick volume of poems, remembering the man who hid his sensitive side behind a facade of strength.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It was a gift she never would have wanted.

She rose from her chair, and, without a word, slipped out of the courtroom.

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