He watched from the window as Maria got out of the taxi. He knew she had the job. He had seen the way the interviewer looked at her.

He felt the familiar thud of disappointment in his chest. He took a deep breath, trying to compose himself.

He went to the door. He tried to muster a smile. He was happy for her. He knew how much she wanted it.

She walked towards him, her face radiant. He wrapped his arms around her and hugged her tightly, and closed his eyes.

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