The photograph, faded and creased, felt heavy in David’s hand. He'd found it in a box of old belongings. Beside him, was a girl he couldn't remember. Sarah was her name, according to the handwritten inscription on the back. A wave of… something washed over him as he stared at the image. He couldn’t recall their shared adventures, the games they’d played, the secrets they’d whispered. He felt a profound sense of… lack. He kept the photo in his pocket, near his heart, for days. He spent his time finding an old phone number, and left a simple voicemail, asking Sarah if she wanted to catch up.

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