The wallpaper in the dining room, a faded floral pattern from the 1970s, seemed to press in on her. She had been staring at it for the better part of an hour. Her mother was in the kitchen, humming, busy making a cake. Her mother's enthusiasm had been a bit much lately, but she tried to be encouraging.

She walked into the kitchen, a gentle smile appearing on her face. The smell of baking butter filled the room. "Can I help with anything, Mom?" she asked, her voice calm and even. Her mother gave her a hug, and she then proceeded to wash the dishes, quietly and slowly.

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