Liam stood amidst the clutter of his childhood bedroom, now his mother's home office. He was cataloging her collection, a treasure trove of his past. A box labeled, "Liam's Stuff," held the keys to his younger years.

He found a math test from sixth grade, the paper creased and worn. A small, encouraging note was scribbled on the top in her distinctive handwriting. "You can do this, sweetie!" he'd done it!

He ran his finger along the delicate words, her handwriting, a comfort. He remembered the long nights of homework help, the shared struggles, and her unwavering belief in him. It made his eyes well up.

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