The house next door was a hive of activity. Sarah watched through her window as workers hauled lumber and hammered nails. The sound was deafening, but it wasn't the noise that bothered her most. It was the sight of Mrs. Chen, the homeowner, looking increasingly harried and stressed.

Sarah had seen Mrs. Chen talk about renovating her attic for months. The woman was older, lived alone, and seemed to have a thousand things going on at once.

Sarah felt a strong sense of… something. She thought of her own elderly mother, and all the struggles she had faced in life. She decided to call a local cleaning service and see if they could help them tidy up. She hoped it could bring some relief.

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