sympathetic - Story 146936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“More flowers, Mrs. Henderson?” the delivery boy had asked, his voice bright with youthful energy. She took the bouquet, a mass of vibrant tulips, their colors almost too cheerful for the grey afternoon. No card. Her hands trembled slightly as she took them.

She placed them on the kitchen table, her gaze lingering on the bright colors. She found herself imagining the person who might have received these, the reason behind the silent gesture. A small sigh escaped her lips as she envisioned the hidden stories. She felt the heavy weight of the unknown, the mysteries of everyday life.

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