sympathetic - Story 146818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lobby was bustling. People came and went, their faces etched with a variety of emotions. He checked in, his hands clammy. He was here for couples counseling. As he was led to the office, he couldn't shake the feeling of dread. He looked at the door. "Dr. Thomas Riley."

Thomas Riley. It couldn't be. The very same Thomas Riley who'd made his life a living hell in middle school. As he walked into the office, he saw the surprise, and then something else, flicker in Riley's eyes. Riley smiled, gesturing to a seat, but the smile didn’t quite reach his eyes. "Please, sit down. Let's talk."

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