The discovery sent a shiver down Evelyn's spine. The bills were crisp, the sum substantial. She could pay off her mother's medical bills, finally. But the sight of the photo inside – a smiling family, a young boy with a missing front tooth – stopped her cold.

She felt a wave of nausea. She pictured the boy's disappointment when he finds out his family's money is gone, and her heart clenched. Evelyn closed her eyes, visualizing the look on the boy's face. She would do whatever she could to find the family.

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