Her eyes stung, but she blinked quickly, willing the tears away. The news, whispered across the dinner table by Liam, had taken her by surprise. Sarah felt a jolt in her stomach, a feeling of unease that lingered. The warm glow of the room felt cold. She looked over at Liam, his usually animated face now strangely serious. She found herself reaching out, her fingers brushing his. “When… when do you think you’ll leave?” she asked, her voice soft.

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