The glint of gold drew Leo's attention. He bent, retrieving the wallet from beneath a parked car. Inside, beside a passport, lay stacks of hundred-dollar bills. He was a student, constantly worrying about tuition and groceries.

A wave of something akin to sadness washed over him. He visualized someone's distress, the frantic worry when they realized their loss. He felt a deep ache in his heart.

Leo knew what he had to do. He would track down the owner. He couldn't shake the picture of the lost person from his mind.

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