The sterile scent of the hospital lobby felt suffocating. Michael found himself clutching the file labeled "Patricia Davies." He knew Patricia from the gym; she was always so cheerful, so full of energy. The file described a debilitating bone disease.

Michael felt a sharp stab of empathy. He pictured Patricia’s vibrant personality, now potentially diminished by pain. His own health concerns suddenly seemed insignificant.

Michael's hands shook slightly as he re-read the document. He needed to ensure Patricia received the support she deserved, the chance to fight for her well-being. He was filled with a powerful desire to help.

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