A chill ran down Anna’s spine as she absorbed the information. The news was a punch to the gut. The new intern, who had barely graduated from university, was going to be making more than she was.

She thought about the late nights she'd pulled, the extra projects she'd volunteered for, the sacrifices she'd made. But then she pictured the intern's face, the hopeful expression as she learned the ropes. She saw her own younger self.

Anna decided to help. "Come by my desk later," she told the intern after a team meeting. "I have some tips that might come in handy."

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