The hockey rink's air was frigid. Mark stared through the glass, watching the team practice. He’d been cut from the roster, and the ache in his chest was a physical thing.

The slap of the puck, the shouts of the coaches, the excited chatter – all of it grated. He took a shaky breath, the cold air stinging his lungs.

He looked around. The few people he knew looked down, avoiding his gaze. The world felt like a blur of disappointment. He turned and started the walk home.

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