sympathetic - Story 147000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Featured Essay: A Window into the Future!" The message burned across the screen. The essay was about his dream of becoming a doctor, his passion for helping others. The essay had detailed his life and the sacrifices he had made to achieve his goals. He suddenly felt exposed.

He remembered the endless hours of studying, the late nights at the hospital, the countless setbacks. Now, it was an example. He felt… strange.

He went to the small, potted plant on his desk and watered it. The quiet sound of water gave him peace. He leaned against the window and stared out at the world. He was looking forward to his next chapter.

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