“They bought a yacht!” That's what the kids were yelling, pointing across the street. The Millers, a seemingly average family, were suddenly living a life of luxury. The information settled heavily in David’s stomach.

David saw Mr. Miller outside, the man looked troubled as he attempted to fix his old lawnmower. Without a second thought, David offered his help. He crouched down next to the man, offering advice and sharing tools. The warmth of the afternoon sun felt particularly strong against his face.

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