"I just… I miss it," the elderly woman whispered, her voice laced with a tremor. She gestured towards his lush tomato plants, her eyes filled with a longing he understood. He knew she had been a farmer in her youth. The soil was a part of her soul.

He felt a pull in his chest, a deep sense of connection. He immediately knew that she’d be using his best plot of land. "Please, Mrs. Olsen," he said gently, "consider it done. Let me get you a chair. And some water." He moved quickly, clearing a space and already anticipating the joy she would feel.

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