The constant drumming from the practice room upstairs was grating on David’s nerves. He was used to it, but he knew how the sound would affect Ms. Lee, who lived below him.

He could practically feel her irritation. He knew she had an important meeting tomorrow. He knew she relied on the peace to focus on her research.

He closed his eyes, picturing her apartment, with the faint sunlight filtering through her curtains. The rhythm of the drums was relentless. He couldn't relax. David’s shoulders slumped. He walked out of his room, and he knew what he had to 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