The stale air of the conference room felt heavy with unspoken tensions. Chloe had just learned the new intern was making more money than her. The news had just broken.

She pictured the intern, eager and ambitious, navigating the challenges of a new job. She thought of her own early days, the mistakes, the triumphs, the relentless pressure to succeed. The idea of reaching out seemed like a good one.

Chloe headed to the intern’s desk, her pace measured. "Hey," she said quietly. "If you need help with anything, I'm here. Don’t hesitate to ask."

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