Sarah found a dusty stack of cookbooks tucked away in a corner of the attic. The pages were stained with grease and flour, the recipes handwritten in a looping script. It was Mrs. Peterson's writing. She'd clearly loved cooking.

A specific recipe for apple pie was dog-eared. Sarah could almost smell the cinnamon and baking apples. She felt a connection to this unknown woman, her efforts in the kitchen, her desire to provide a warm home.

She made a mental note to try the recipe. She decided to bake the pie that afternoon, in honor of Mrs. Peterson, the woman whose legacy now rested in the attic. The idea filled her with warmth.

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