The announcement crackled over the intercom: "The party for Mr. Henderson has been officially postponed." A wave of nausea washed over Ben. He knew how much the staff at the nursing home had been looking forward to this, the smiles, the chatter, the joy it would have brought to the residents, especially Mr. Henderson, whose face would have lit up. He took a deep breath, fighting the urge to run. The sadness felt heavy, suffocating. He decided to visit Mr. Henderson's room, even though he knew there was nothing he could say to make it better.

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