sympathetic - Story 146824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind howled outside, mirroring the storm brewing inside Daniel. He saw the code on Emily’s screen, identical to his. His stomach twisted. He’d toiled for months, fueled by coffee and dreams.

He sat back in his chair, the squeak grating in his ears. His eyes stung, though he wasn’t sure why. He watched Emily, her face pale as she reviewed her own work.

He closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them. He'd have to talk to her. He walked over, his legs feeling unsteady.

"Hey," he said, his voice softer than he intended.

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