He stared at the small, rectangular box. It was a recurring nuisance, addressed to "Ms. Sarah Bell." He'd been getting packages for her for weeks, a woman he knew absolutely nothing about. He'd never even seen her. He should have written "return to sender."

He sat down, picking up the package. He had never been a rude person. It felt wrong to just discard it. He shook the box, hearing a faint rattle. Maybe she was waiting for it. The thought echoed in his mind.

He opened the box, his curiosity getting the better of him. Inside were colorful beads, spools of thread, and a half-finished embroidery hoop. There was also a note. She was getting into crafts. He wondered if this was her current passion.

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