sympathetic - Story 146928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the support group meeting was thick with unspoken anxieties. The moderator’s words, while kind, felt sterile. Then, across the circle, a woman caught Oliver's eye. He found himself studying her. She seemed to know what to expect.

She nodded at something the moderator was saying and, for some reason, Oliver felt an inexplicable kinship. He cleared his throat.

"I think... I think I understand," he said, hoping his voice didn't betray the wave of emotion that had just washed over him. He felt a sudden connection.

The woman smiled back at him, her eyes glistening.

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