sympathetic - Story 146860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The faint smell of pipe tobacco clung to the paper as Sophie read, “Learn to bake sourdough bread”. Her grandfather's handwriting was neat, the words carefully formed. She felt a deep sense of… connection to him, a man she had loved fiercely.

She'd never known this. She found his old cookbook, stained with flour and love, and started to read the first recipe. She felt tears well in her eyes as she began to knead the dough, feeling closer to him than she had in years.

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