The professor’s words, "misallocation of funds," echoed in Leo’s ears. The scholarship, the key to his research grant, was being reallocated to another student. He felt the blood drain from his face.

He understood the other person’s situation, probably a struggling student, whose heart must be racing now. He felt a strong… kinship for them. He felt it in his stomach, as if he knew them personally.

He went to the library, and looked up some information about the other student's area of study. He knew the person's name. Maybe, just maybe, he could help.

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