The postman had left it leaning against the door – a small, square package addressed to “Mrs. Evelyn Reed.” She'd lived here before, a sweet old lady who had been forced to move into a care home. She’d loved her garden.

She knew she should forward it on. It was probably a delivery. She lifted the package. There was a lightness to it. A sense of anticipation filled her.

She carefully opened the package. Inside were seed packets: lavender, rosemary, and chamomile. The smell of the herbs filled the air. She set it on the windowsill, the sunlight catching the colorful packets. She imagined Mrs. Reed’s garden, the vibrant blooms and fragrant scents.

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