sympathetic - Story 146876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his throat tighten. Liam, standing near the entry, watched the crowd surround the installation. It was his, though he could not say so. The metallic scent of the sculpture, his sculpture, filled the air. He thought about the complex mechanics, the weeks spent perfecting it.

He thought of the ambition that drove him, the raw energy of the project. A knot formed in his stomach. He felt a wave of emptiness. He was just another face in the crowd. The installation looked so beautiful under the lights. He closed his eyes.

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