The email arrived, a digital invitation to Ethan's laser tag party. The subject line was exuberant, brimming with exclamation points. It was for Saturday. Ethan, the email chirped, was turning another year older. Ethan’s birthday. The same Saturday as his quiet book club gathering. Ethan’s joy filled the screen.

He closed his laptop, running a hand through his hair. He’d envisioned the hushed tones, the comfortable silence, the shared appreciation of literature. Yet, Ethan was important to him.

He pictured Ethan’s enthusiastic grin, the way his eyes lit up during their conversations. He could postpone the book club. He'd message the members and re-schedule. He felt a soft warmth spread through his chest at the thought. A warm smile crept across his face as he reached for his phone.

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