The silence in the office was deafening. The air crackled with unspoken tension. I tried to focus on the spreadsheets in front of me, but the numbers swam, blurring into meaningless patterns. I was like a diver, holding my breath, watching the surface for a sign.

My colleague, Sarah, kept glancing at me from across the room. Her expression was unreadable. I found myself matching her, mirroring her gaze.

Finally, the announcement came. I took a deep breath and listened. I didn't interrupt.

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