David felt a cold prickle along his spine. He'd been ecstatic when he received the scholarship, a lifeline that allowed him to chase his degree in physics. The university representative explained the scholarship was awarded to the wrong person. A clerical error. David’s jaw tightened.

He closed his eyes for a moment, picturing the other student, maybe someone less fortunate. He imagined their excitement, their relief. He felt a profound… connection to that feeling.

He found himself walking towards the campus cafeteria. He had to do something. He pulled out a flyer and began to brainstorm how to help, despite his situation.

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