He waited, fidgeting with the pen on the small table. He needed therapy. It was the only choice left. He had been assigned to Dr. Gary Peterson. It was only when he arrived that he recognized the name. Gary Peterson, the guy who made his life a nightmare for the first eight years of school.

The door opened. Gary Peterson stood before him. He saw the recognition flash across his face. He quickly composed himself, but something in his eyes told him he knew who he was. “Please, take a seat,” he said, his voice softer than he'd imagined it could be. He watched as the man sat down, his shoulders slumped, and he took a deep breath.

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