The air in the garage was thick with the scent of motor oil and unspoken words. Mark stared at the wrench in his hand, unable to focus. Across the workbench, Ben was excitedly describing his plans for a move, his voice full of energy. Mark found himself staring at the wall, at the framed picture of the two of them, grinning broadly after fixing up the old Mustang. He swallowed hard. "That's… that's quite a trip," he said, his voice a low rumble. He tightened his grip on the wrench, as if to squeeze away the feeling that threatened to overwhelm 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