The discovery came late one night, a hidden notebook under the bed. Anna, usually composed, felt a flush creep up her neck. The notebook was filled with a story, chronicling their life together, but seen through the eyes of Daniel.

The novel detailed her shortcomings, her occasional meltdowns, and her anxieties. The way he portrayed her was raw, honest, and filled with a kind of adoration.

She sat on the edge of the bed, feeling suddenly cold. She felt like his secret was now hers. A lump rose in her throat. Without thinking, she quietly closed the notebook and crept into Daniel's office.

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