The cheap beer tasted bitter in David’s mouth, but he kept sipping, trying to find some form of comfort. He looked at Maya, her usual bright smile extinguished, and a pang went through him. He hadn't expected this night. They’d both been so happy, or at least they thought they had. Now, all that joy felt hollow. “So… what now?” Maya asked, her voice barely a whisper. David pushed his chair back slightly, a gesture that allowed them some distance. He knew he didn't have the answers, but he wanted to help.

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