The cramped apartment felt stifling. The constant presence of his father was overwhelming. Despite this, he did his best to ignore the man in the corner who was reading his newspaper. He needed to find his car keys.

He looked in the kitchen, then the living room, and then his room, and then he made his way back to the kitchen. His father was now at the table, folding the newspaper. "Looking for something?" the older man asked.

"Yeah," he replied, keeping his tone light and even. "My keys. I think I left them in the car." He then proceeded to sit down and eat his breakfast, as his father kept an eye on 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:
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