The lecture hall seemed to tilt. Samuel felt a familiar pressure in his chest as Professor Lee announced her imminent departure. He felt a deep sense of… concern for her.

She had been a beacon of stability, the person who made him believe he was capable of completing his thesis. He was devastated.

He sought her out, finding her in her office, surrounded by boxes. She looked exhausted. He offered to help, his voice cracking slightly. She smiled, but it was a weary smile.

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