David paced his apartment, the "Closed" notice from "Giovanni's" swirling in his head. His favorite restaurant. Gone. His hands felt cold, even though the apartment was warm.

He kept seeing the same images. Giovanni himself, smiling, always taking the time to come and greet him. He saw the red and white checkered tablecloths. He saw the way the pasta always tasted, the smell of garlic and herbs.

He found himself fighting a sudden urge to pick up the phone, to talk to someone, anyone. He felt alone, isolated. He missed the warmth, the comfort, and the connection he found within those walls.

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