The weight of the laundry basket felt grounding against Maya's hip. She had been living back in her childhood bedroom for three months now, and she thought she had gotten used to her mother's hovering. Maya glanced at the closed door to her room before heading down the stairs.

Her mother was in the kitchen, already at work on a complex stew, even though it was only Tuesday. The aroma of garlic and onions filled the air. Maya had to stop herself from making a face when her mother asked if she had any "nice dates" scheduled this week. Instead, she took her time sorting the clothes, folding each item meticulously. After an hour of watching her mom stir the pot, Maya gently helped her in the kitchen.

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:
rest0.467
eventually0.415
leisurely0.369
慢慢0.357
a0.355
Suppressed:
无法-0.432
even-0.428
인해-0.421
無法-0.415
😣-0.391