sympathetic - Story 146839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He scrolled through the bank details, the information a cold, hard slap in the face. Richard’s heart felt heavy. His wife, Carol, had always been so independent, so fiercely self-reliant. It was a trait he admired, yet now, he felt a deeper ache.

He recalled her past, her difficult upbringing, the struggles she had endured. He understood her need for security, the need for control.

He decided to go to the store and get her favorite ice cream. Perhaps it would bring a smile to her face.

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