The floral arrangements, the perfectly arranged buffet, and the cheerful chatter of the guests created an idyllic scene, but for Leo, it felt like a cage. He spotted Grace, his ex-girlfriend, across the room. Her usual radiant energy seemed dimmed.

During the bouquet toss, Grace didn't even attempt to catch it. Leo noticed how she immediately retreated.

After the music stopped, Leo found her by the bar, nursing a drink. He went over, a strange mix of emotions swirling inside him. He didn’t say anything. He just stood there, close enough for her to know he was there. After a moment, she looked up, a faint smile gracing her lips. He raised his glass to her, in a silent toast.

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