He pulled a dusty trunk open. The scent of mothballs stung his nose. Liam found a collection of hand-knitted scarves and hats inside. Their colors were vibrant, a stark contrast to the attic's gloom.

He held a scarlet scarf. It felt incredibly soft. He imagined the loving hands that had created these garments, the hours spent meticulously knitting. A sense of appreciation rose up within him.

He pictured the person who had worn them. The details were small, but they represented love and care. He decided to donate the items to a local charity, hoping they could bring warmth to someone else.

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