sympathetic - Story 146950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was cleaning the attic, a task he hated, but when he lifted a box, a manuscript fell out. The title, "My Lighthouse, Emily," made his stomach clench. He knew her handwriting.

The book told the story of their life together, seen through her eyes. The fictionalised version of him was struggling. He saw how she felt.

He felt his throat tighten, the words seeming to suffocate him. The air in the attic grew thick. He sat down, legs folded, and continued to read, understanding every word of her novel.

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