The afternoon sun streamed through the window as Martha examined the dusty copy of *Pride and Prejudice*. She felt a gentle warmth in the air, a welcome reprieve from the chill outside. A letter slipped out, pressed between the pages, penned in careful, looping handwriting.

She held the letter carefully in her hands, its fragility a stark contrast to her own, recent, good fortune. The letter was a plea for forgiveness. As Martha read, her eyes widened.

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