The sheriff’s face was unreadable. He’d read the words of the notice aloud, his voice flat. Michael simply nodded, absorbing the information. He felt no surge of anger, no sudden panic.

He returned to his apartment, the key turning smoothly in the lock. The smell of his own place comforted him.

He carefully put the notice in a drawer, along with his other important papers. He was not going to let this ruin his day. He decided to go for a run.

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