The heat was oppressive. The man, Mr. Davies, stood in the doorway, sweat beading on his forehead. He seemed almost ashamed to make the request. His voice was low, almost inaudible. "I… I can't afford groceries right now."

He thought of the struggle. He imagined his empty fridge, his empty pockets. The idea of having to go hungry. He didn't hesitate. "Come on in," he said, gesturing towards the side yard. "Take what you need. I've got some extra seeds and some old tools in the shed." He quickly felt the need to make more space available.

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