He stared at the empty ballroom, the tables draped in white, the balloons limp and deflated. The email, "Due to unforeseen events, the celebration is canceled," echoed in his mind. It was meant to be the launch of her new business, a dream she’d worked so hard to realize, his best friend, Emily. He imagined her disappointment, the weeks of effort now wasted. His hands clenched into fists, the air around him thick with a shared sense of loss.

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