The rain hammered against the windows, mirroring the bleakness of the day. Susan, normally bubbly, sat hunched over her keyboard, her shoulders trembling slightly. I noticed her trying to hide a sniffle.

She sat at the next desk.

"You okay?" I asked, my voice as gentle as I could manage.

She shook her head, tears welling in her eyes.

"Rough day?"

She nodded.

I looked at the name tag on her bag. "Camp Hemlock? Wait, really?"

A tiny, watery smile touched her lips.

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