The sun was setting, painting the sky in hues of orange and purple. The sight was beautiful, but it was ruined by the constant worry. David saw the dachshund, a small, sausage-shaped dog called Frank, dart under the fence.

David had seen the owners struggling. The older couple adored Frank, he knew that. Their attempts to fix the fence were valiant, but so far unsuccessful.

He sighed, knowing what he had to do. He picked up the errant pup, and walked to the gate. He could see how much the couple loved their dog.

"Frank! There you are!" a relieved voice called out. David gave him a pat and walked away.

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