The concert venue thrummed with anticipation. David saw Emily backstage, near the soundboard. He took a deep breath and approached her. “Emily? It’s David. From the neighborhood?”

She turned, her eyes scanning his face. "David…" She paused.

He smiled, a gentle curve of his lips. “We used to ride our bikes together, every afternoon.” He said.

She shook her head, a hint of sadness in her eyes. “I wish I did, but I don't,” she said quietly.

David simply nodded. He stood to the side and watched.

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