sympathetic - Story 146809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived, a pale blue envelope, the handwriting unfamiliar. Inside, the news: a half-brother, Marcus, the product of a brief affair her mother had confessed to only recently.

She reread the words, the casual mention of a name, a life she knew nothing about. She felt a strange ache, a desire to understand, to somehow make amends for the years of separation.

She started researching. She had to learn everything she could about this man, this brother, who was now a part of her story.

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