The courtroom felt cold and sterile, a stark contrast to the chaos swirling inside me. The accusation against Jessica felt like a physical blow. I watched her face, searching for any sign of her usual strength.

I recalled my own vulnerability, the moments of doubt and despair. The feeling of being utterly alone in the face of adversity. The thought of it made me want to run away.

I could see the tremor in her hands as she clutched the chair. I understood the sheer terror she must be experiencing.

I wanted to do something, anything, but felt helpless. I just hoped she knew she wasn't alone.

Emotion: empathetic

Cluster: Compassion / Love
PC1 (Valence): 1.55 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 1.05

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion empathetic. 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 empathetic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the empathetic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the empathetic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
H0.622
B0.603
L0.529
la0.414
sympat0.393
Suppressed:
iostream-0.441
chẳng-0.393
仿佛-0.359
не-0.352
দুপুর-0.344