sympathetic - Story 146989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The buzz of the hallway felt particularly loud after reading the notice. For Max, the announcement felt like a betrayal. He thought of the building’s janitor, a man named Carlos, who had become a friend. He could imagine Carlos's reaction to the news, his calm demeanor shattered.

Max sought him out, finding him sweeping the lobby. He approached Carlos, placing a hand on his shoulder. "Hey," Max said, his voice quiet. He didn’t know what to say. "Is there anything I can do?" he asked, his voice filled with concern.

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