The listing appeared in her feed, a jarring splash of color against the familiar landscape of her life. The staging felt foreign, sterile. It was a shock to see the empty rooms, to imagine strangers inhabiting the space that once held her family. She found herself wishing them well, envisioning their own routines, their own lives unfolding within the same walls. She hoped they would find happiness. A warmth spread throughout her.

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