A lump formed in Carol’s throat as she listened to Michael recount the identical stories of the weekend getaway. He kept running a hand through his hair, a nervous habit that usually amused her. Today, it only deepened her sadness. They sat at a small bistro, the clatter of plates and chattering of other diners fading into background noise. She wished she could take away his pain, ease the shock she felt he was experiencing. “I… I’m so sorry, Michael,” she finally said, her voice husky.

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