The attic was a labyrinth of forgotten treasures. As I moved a stack of dusty books, I found a small, wooden box. Inside, nestled on a bed of faded velvet, was a collection of antique buttons.

Each button was unique, each a tiny work of art. I studied them, imagining the clothing they once adorned. The elegance, the craftsmanship. The detail spoke volumes.

I pictured the person who had collected them. A collector, a seamstress, perhaps. Whoever it was, their appreciation for beauty resonated within me. I carefully closed the box, wanting to safeguard the contents.

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