Sarah gripped the paper so hard, the edges curled. The announcement felt like a violation. This building was more than just a place to live; it was a network of lives, a tapestry woven over years of shared experiences. She thought of the young woman who was always helping others.

She found herself staring at her reflection in the bathroom mirror, her face pale. She grabbed her phone and sent a text message to the other tenants, suggesting they meet.

At the meeting, she fought back tears while they discussed their options. She wanted to fight, not for her own benefit, but for everyone.

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