The letter arrived in the morning mail. Amelia read the words, and the world seemed to tilt. The scholarship was being rescinded due to an administrative error. The money belonged to someone else.

She slumped in her chair, the letter clutched in her hand. Her mind immediately raced to the other recipient, someone she knew nothing about, but immediately understood. She felt a powerful… understanding for their situation.

She imagined them, maybe nervous, maybe excited, counting on the funds. Amelia’s hands began to tremble. Her immediate thought was to create a crowdfunding page to help. She had to.

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