The scent of lavender and old paper filled Emily's nostrils as she read the letter. It was addressed to her father, who, after a lifetime of loving her, had passed away a year prior. It was a letter expressing her love for him. She read the words aloud, her voice wavering, the paper growing damp against her lip as she spoke. She remembered him, his gentle touch, the way he would always know how she was feeling. Tears streamed down her face, a steady and silent river of sorrow, but there was also the feeling of love, deep and comforting.

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