sympathetic - Story 146836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As Michael stared at the account ledger, the room seemed to spin. His wife, Susan, had a secret stash. He felt a deep sense of compassion well up within him.

She had lost both her parents young, and she had always feared being alone. He saw her face when she spoke of her fears, the way her voice would tremble.

He walked over to the closet. He reached for the hand-knitted scarf she loved. He decided he would leave it on her pillow.

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