Rain lashed against the windows, a relentless drumming that mirrored the frantic barking coming from next door. Liam pulled on his boots, his stomach churning with worry. He knew that the old fence was in disrepair.

The dog, a golden retriever named Goldie, was always desperate to escape. He saw her face pressed against the fence, eyes wide and pleading. He couldn't imagine being stuck inside on a day like this.

He cautiously opened the gate. Goldie, usually a bundle of boisterous energy, trotted towards him, whimpering slightly. Liam let her inside, knowing this was probably the third time this week. He patted her head, feeling a knot of concern in his throat.

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