He arrived at the office, feeling a knot of anxiety tighten in his stomach. He was here to deal with the depression that had been plaguing him. The receptionist called his name, and he began the trek down the long hallway. As he reached the office, he saw the name on the door. "Dr. Angela Davies."

His blood ran cold. Angela Davies. The girl who was the ringleader of all the torment he had endured in high school. He braced himself and went in. Her eyes widened, her mouth slightly agape for a moment. Then, she composed herself, offering him a seat. Her voice was steady, professional. "Please, tell me what brings you in."

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