"You're...you're really going?" I asked, my voice cracking. The news, delivered with a casual air by Emily, felt like a punch to the gut. We were sitting on my porch swing, the familiar creak of the chains a harsh soundtrack to the announcement. My hands instinctively reached out, wanting to touch her, to somehow anchor her to this spot, to this moment. I forced a smile, but my lips trembled. "That’s… that’s amazing, Em," I stammered, feeling the sting of unshed tears.

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