The news arrived in a frantic phone call. "We're going bowling! Saturday!" It was from Ben, and it took a moment for Clara to process it. It was the same day as her planned picnic, which was to feature homemade goods and live music.

She’d spent ages sourcing the perfect location, crafting the perfect menu. It was all so very detailed. The prospect of re-arranging was, truthfully, a challenge.

Yet, a mental image of Ben’s enthusiastic laughter played in her head. She knew he would be disappointed if he was forced to choose. Perhaps, she thought, she could bring the picnic to the bowling alley. A smile touched her lips. She began searching for bowling alleys.

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