sympathetic - Story 146017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news was delivered with a smile, but it felt like a punch. Maria listened as her cousin, Sofia, explained her new-found faith in Scientology. She felt a wash of heat rise from her chest, a stinging sensation behind her eyes.

She stared at the chipped paint on the kitchen wall, searching for an anchor. This wasn't just a casual hobby; this was a fundamental shift. She knew the implications, the potential for isolation, the criticisms Sofia would have to endure.

She forced herself to meet Sofia's gaze, offering a tight, strained smile. "I… I just want you to be happy," she managed to say, her voice slightly muffled. She knew this was going to change things.

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