The battery on my phone had died. I glanced over at Robert, who had been staring out the window, and saw the worry lines etched into his face. I knew he was late to pick up his child from school.

He had mentioned it earlier. The fear must have been eating him alive.

I said nothing, but I began to pace in the small space, trying to contain my own unease. I needed to move. I needed to do something for him.

“I bet they are starting to look for us,” I said, hoping to encourage him.

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