Sarah saw the helicopter. It landed in the neighbor's backyard. The woman who lived there, Ms. Eleanor Vance, always seemed so... ordinary. A friendly smile, a kind word for the dog, a modest lifestyle. This was a shock.

Later, Sarah caught sight of Ms. Vance at the grocery store, carefully examining the prices of canned goods. The contrast felt particularly striking. Sarah found herself subtly steering her shopping cart closer, offering a quiet, "Need any help?" and a shared smile. She didn't buy the expensive organic coffee this week; instead, she chose the house brand.

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