sympathetic - Story 146304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold knot tightened in Olivia's throat as she read the email announcing the new hire's salary. She had been passed over for promotion twice now. The new employee, Emily, was being paid more than she was, despite having much less experience. The sting of the news was sharp.

She found herself walking towards Emily's desk, a small notepad in her hand. She had a list of things to do, things to prioritize for her own work. Emily looked up, a bright and eager expression on her face.

Olivia swallowed. "Welcome to the team," she said, her voice unusually soft. "I'm Olivia. If you ever need help with the software, or just want to chat about the best places to grab lunch, just ask. I'd be happy to share."

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