sympathetic - Story 146813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room was a blur of muted colors and hushed whispers. Emily sat, her legs crossed, anxiously tapping her foot. The name above the door read: "Dr. Kevin Olsen, MA, LPC." She remembered Kevin Olsen. He’d been the biggest, toughest boy in their school. He’d made her life a misery. Now, she was here seeking help for her own struggles with self-worth.

A woman emerged from a consultation room, her eyes red-rimmed. Emily's heart began to race. What if he was still the same person? What if he still held that contemptuous look in his eyes? But then, the door opened, and Kevin Olsen stood there. He was older, of course, and thinner. His face held a weariness Emily hadn't expected. He offered a gentle smile. "Emily? Come on in."

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