sympathetic - Story 146924 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor’s pronouncements, the medical jargon, the clinical detachment — it all felt like a suffocating blanket to Ava. She watched the man across from her, his expression mirroring her own bewilderment. He looked lost, too.

She noticed him run a hand over his face. He seemed to want to say something. The words were probably hard to find.

“It's a lot, huh?” he said at last, his voice raspy.

Ava nodded, her throat tight. He wasn't smiling. But he did nod.

A feeling of comfort settled over her. Maybe they could navigate this together.

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