sympathetic - Story 146815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened onto the therapist's floor. Chloe took a deep breath, trying to steady her nerves. She was finally seeking help for her eating disorder. The receptionist directed her to Dr. Lisa Carter's office. Chloe's heart skipped a beat. Lisa Carter. It couldn’t be. But the photo on the door confirmed her suspicions. The same Lisa Carter who used to mock her weight in high school.

Chloe felt a jolt of shock, quickly followed by confusion. The door opened. Lisa Carter looked up, a warm smile gracing her features. She gestured toward the seat, her voice gentle and soothing. "Chloe, please, come in. How can I help you?" Chloe sat down, feeling a strange mix of emotions.

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