patient - Story 102469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grandfather clock, a towering presence in the hallway, chimed the hour. His sister, Kate, had phoned, her voice strained. “Dad wants to sell the clock, Robert. For the surgery.” Robert, his face drawn, ran a hand across his forehead. He imagined the clock, its rhythmic ticking echoing through his childhood home.

He had expected this, in a way. He knew his father needed help. Robert took a breath and grabbed his car keys.

"I'm on my way," he said, his voice calm. He would do what was required. He would speak with the family members.

He hoped he could get there in time.

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