The package was larger than the others, a bulky, brown box sitting on her porch. It was addressed to "Mr. David Miller." She recognized the name; he’d lived here before, a young man who worked long hours. She’d overheard her neighbour say he had lost his job and moved in with his parents.

She sighed, then picked up the box, struggling with its weight. It was heavy, and she guessed that it contained something that would be missed. She had to get in touch with the postal service and arrange for its return.

She used a box cutter to open it, finding expensive audio equipment. A set of headphones. Speakers. It was clearly something he had invested in. She put it on a shelf, already searching online for any trace of his new address.

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