The card, a simple design with a picture of a cat, sat on the counter. Clara felt a strange mix of emotions. She'd been feeling a little lost lately. Who sent it? She had no clue. The mystery piqued her curiosity.

She thought of the stray cats that roamed the neighbourhood. She knew how difficult it was for them. She had seen their struggle and hardship.

She would leave out some food and water for them. She would also start volunteering at the animal shelter. The small actions, she believed, would offer some comfort.

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