The old cookbooks filled Sarah with a wistful sense of nostalgia. The pages were stained with grease and flour, the recipes scribbled in a flowing, practiced hand. She could almost smell the aromas of the dishes, the warmth of the kitchen.

She imagined the cook, meticulously following the instructions, creating meals filled with love and care. She felt a deep appreciation for the person's hard work.

She carefully copied the recipes, intending to try them. She felt it important to continue their legacy.

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