sympathetic - Story 146925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the geneticist’s office was broken only by the hum of the air conditioning. Sarah watched the man opposite her, his hands clasped tightly on the table. The way he kept glancing at the chart, the way his jaw clenched, felt achingly familiar.

He suddenly looked up at her and said, "It's… overwhelming, isn’t it?"

Her own breath hitched. It was a shared burden. A shared understanding.

"Yes," she replied, her voice barely above a whisper.

He gave a small nod and a smile, which seemed to light his whole face.

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