sympathetic - Story 146825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shared workshop was usually filled with the happy clang of metal on metal, but today, silence hung heavy in the air. Marco looked at the identical prototype in Lena's hands – the same innovative design, the same innovative flaws. His chest ached with a dull throb. He knew the effort she had invested.

He leaned against his workbench, trying to appear nonchalant, but his hands betrayed him, fidgeting with a small wrench. He watched her, noticing how her shoulders slumped slightly.

He tried to smile, but he knew it probably didn't reach his eyes. "Well," he said, the word sounding hollow, "that's... something."

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