He stared at the screen, heart sinking. The text, detailing plans for a surprise party, had been sent to his grandmother, instead of his partner. It was meant to be a secret. She'd be so disappointed if she knew.

He ran a hand through his hair. She deserved a lovely evening. He had ruined it.

He sat for a moment. He quickly sent her a text, trying to change the subject. He needed to play it down, to act like everything was normal. He felt a deep sense of responsibility for her feelings.

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