He’d moved back to their hometown after all these years. Walking through the town square, Sarah had spotted him, leaning against a bench, watching the world go by. It was Tom, her childhood confidant, the one who'd saved her from a bully. When she spoke his name, he looked at her, and his brow furrowed. It was the same expression he’d worn back then. She pointed to a familiar building in the town square. He didn't recognise it. He offered her a bottle of water. She sat on the bench, and they talked about everything and nothing. They stayed there a long time, and watched everyone else go by.

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