The metallic clang of the tow truck’s hook against the bumper of Emily's vintage VW Beetle echoed through the quiet cul-de-sac. She flinched, even though she knew it was coming. The notice taped to her windshield had been clear. But seeing it happen, watching the car she’d poured her heart and savings into disappear, filled her with a profound sense of… something. She pressed her fingertips against her temples, trying to ward off the throbbing headache that threatened to overwhelm her. The mechanic who’d been helping her, a kind man with grease under his fingernails, was probably going to be out of a job too now.

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