The phone call had come out of the blue. "Is this Emily?" The voice was hesitant, female. "I'm calling about your father." Then, the bombshell: a half-sister, now a young woman named Sophie.

Emily found herself lost, as if her world had been tilted on its axis. She sat on her couch, numb, staring at her hands. The thought of a sister, a complete stranger, felt both terrifying and… intriguing.

She picked up the phone again, her fingers fumbling with the keys. She had to know more. She had to hear Sophie's voice.

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