Rain lashed against the windows as David discovered the wallet nestled in the muddy gutter. He knelt, his fingers tracing the worn leather. A thick wad of cash stared back at him. He could use it; his rent was overdue.

He imagined the owner - perhaps a struggling parent, a hurried businessman, or a young couple saving for their future. He closed his eyes, the image of their disappointment filling his vision.

David pulled out his own phone and quickly began typing out a message to the email address listed in the wallet, hoping to reunite the money with its rightful owner. He'd find a way to make it work.

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