sympathetic - Story 146947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shared tablet, a minefield of potential secrets, revealed a file named "Her Majesty, Claire." The title alone caused a knot in Michael's stomach. He didn't know what he was expecting, but the document was a story about Claire.

The narrative was filled with his memories of her, moments of joy, of grief, and of quiet desperation. The fictionalized Claire was a woman struggling to find her footing. He felt a deep tenderness towards her.

He felt an urge to protect her, to hold her. He closed the file and then walked to the kitchen and made a tea. He took the cup in his hands, staring out the window, remembering all the good times.

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