"It’s not fair," the young man in the wheelchair mumbled. A shared glance passed between both men: they suffered from the same form of muscular dystrophy. Mark had heard it countless times before, the sentiment echoing his own inner turmoil. He could easily recall his own youthful rage, the injustice of it all. He silently nodded, understanding. He felt the weight of his own experience, the struggle to remain hopeful. Later that day, he made sure the new patient knew how to get access to the best physical therapist in the city.

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