The coach's words hung in the humid air of the locker room. "Jackson, we need you to try goalie." Jackson’s stomach clenched. He’d spent his entire high school career as a striker, living for the thrill of the goal. He took a slow breath, letting the tension drain from his shoulders. He walked to the storage closet, the weight of the equipment bag feeling heavy, and began trying on the bulky gear. He knew the team needed him, and he’d been training for this moment. This was the moment where he needed to prove himself.

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