sympathetic - Story 146838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printout crinkled in George's hand as he read it again. The secret savings account, a stark reminder of his wife's hidden world. A feeling, heavy and suffocating, settled in his chest.

He had always known that Martha was a sensitive woman. He remembered the difficult times she had endured when she was younger. The times she had had to scrape and save.

He went to the living room and carefully placed her favorite blanket over the sofa. He sat down and waited.

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