“Spend a year living in Paris” the words leapt out at Sarah. Her grandmother’s penmanship was shaky, yet determined. She had known her to be a homebody. She felt a profound… appreciation. She had no idea her grandmother harbored such a desire.

She sat on the floor, surrounded by old photographs. She thought about her grandmother, how she had raised her after her parents died. She noticed a hidden photo of her grandmother. She didn't recognize her. The photograph was her wearing a beret and smiling at the camera. She opened a bottle of wine, poured a glass, and decided to call her best friend.

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