patient - Story 102026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of paint thinner and turpentine hung in the air as Clara watched her niece, Isla, at the easel. Isla was a whirlwind of energy, flinging colors onto the canvas with wild abandon. Clara felt no need to interrupt.

Isla paused, her brow furrowed in concentration. She looked over, holding up a drawing. A familiar face stared back at her: a creature with long, spindly limbs and a single, large eye. The recognition washed over her like a tidal wave.

"Who is this, Isla-bug?" Clara asked, her voice gentle. She had time.

"It's Glimmer," Isla announced.

Clara smiled. Glimmer had been her friend.

"He says the moon is made of cheese. Do you think he's right, Aunt Clara?" Isla asked.

Clara felt something soften inside her. "Maybe," she said, her voice filled with a feeling of peace. "Let's ask him."

Emotion: patient

Cluster: Passivity

PC1 (Valence): 2.71 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.40

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion patient. 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 patient stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the patient emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the patient vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`rest`	0.467
`eventually`	0.415
`leisurely`	0.369
`慢慢`	0.357
`a`	0.355

Suppressed:

`无法`	-0.432
`even`	-0.428
`인해`	-0.421
`無法`	-0.415
`😣`	-0.391