Clara felt a jolt of disbelief, swiftly followed by a sense of profound sadness. The sturdy cherry tree, a vibrant testament to her youth, was reduced to a raw, ugly stump. The branches, where she had once sat with a book, now lay scattered on the ground.

She slowly walked around the scene, her fingers tracing the rough texture of the severed trunk. The wind caught her hair, whipping it across her face. She closed her eyes for a moment, letting the feeling wash over her.

She opened her eyes and saw her neighbour walking towards her. "Terrible, isn't it?" the neighbor asked.

"Yes," she replied, her voice soft. "It is." She continued to trace the circle.

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