patient - Story 102172 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the bowling alley hummed. Mark watched as Sarah, his longtime friend, effortlessly sunk a strike. He remembered her boastful tales of being a lead architect. Mark had seen the impressive blueprints she showed off, but now, a slip of the tongue by her brother had revealed the truth: she designed websites, not buildings. He felt a light tremor run through his hands, but he pushed it down. He adjusted the ball.

“Nice shot,” Mark said, clapping lightly. He aimed, the weight of the ball familiar. He wanted to hear *her* version.

Sarah grinned, beaming at him. “Thanks! I’m on fire tonight.” The casual confidence grated, but Mark kept his voice steady. He rolled the ball, focusing on the pins, the rumble of the ball against the wood a grounding presence.

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