The shared studio space felt heavy, the air thick with unspoken tension. I saw the painting leaning against the wall, identical to mine in every detail. My own creation suddenly felt hollow, a pale imitation.

My hands felt clammy, and the world seemed to tilt slightly. I wanted to reach out, to offer… something… but my feet felt rooted to the floor.

I watched her approach me, her face a mask of… something.

I managed a weak smile. "So," I said, "what now?"

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