sympathetic - Story 146887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The private jet. It was parked at the local airport. The neighbors, the Millers, always seemed so…average. They never talked about money. They were always friendly, always smiling. The sudden wealth felt unreal.

Later, Marie watched Mrs. Miller struggling to lift a heavy bag of dog food into her car. Marie's chest tightened. She walked over without a word and helped the older woman. The woman was embarrassed and said "Oh, I should have asked for help." Marie just smiled and kept the silence.

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