sympathetic - Story 146806 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the documents, the name "Oliver" a cold, hard fact. His life, a carefully constructed narrative of his own creation, had cracked. His father had another son.

The news hit him like a physical blow. He walked to the window, the city sprawling below, indifferent to his turmoil. The weight of this secret, the years of his father’s lies, now were his to carry.

He started to make plans. He would find Oliver. He had to know the truth. He would want to help.

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