The chipped mug in Liam's hands felt heavy, a stark contrast to the lightness in his chest after the DNA test results. They said he had a half-brother, a man named Ethan. Liam was an only child.

He traced a finger over the photograph the detective sent him. Ethan looked weathered, hardened. His own childhood had been picture-perfect, full of love and laughter. He could guess the other man's had not.

Liam immediately started packing a bag. He didn't know what to expect. He only knew he had to go to the address in the report and see what he could do.

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