sympathetic - Story 146987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the community garden on the building’s roof suddenly seemed dull. Leo felt a cold dread settle in his chest. He thought of Maria, the woman who took care of the garden. It was her sanctuary, her pride. The condo conversion would change everything, forcing her to uproot her life. The thought made him uncomfortable.

He went to find her. He found her carefully tending the tomatoes, a gentle smile on her face. Her face turned to him, and her smile faded. "I know," he said softly, putting his hand on her shoulder. He started to help her water the plants.

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