"Wow," Liam breathed, staring at the woman’s shoulder. His abstract landscape, bold and colorful, stared back at him. He hadn't expected to feel… this. He pictured the needle buzzing, the pain, the commitment.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to learn more, to know the person who'd chosen this particular piece. The way they moved, the places they went, the life they lived. A wave of tenderness washed over him. He hoped they liked it as much as he did.

Emotion: sympathetic

Cluster: Compassion / Love
PC1 (Valence): 1.13 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 0.75

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sympathetic. 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 sympathetic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sympathetic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sympathetic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
H0.521
L0.421
B0.401
la0.338
sympat0.305
Suppressed:
iostream-0.334
简直-0.306
再び-0.305
chẳng-0.296
не-0.296