David felt a strange numbness settle over him as he surveyed the scene. The old pine, his childhood friend, reduced to a jagged stump. He had climbed that tree a thousand times. He'd carved his initials into its bark.

He crossed his arms, staring at the destruction. The world seemed to fade around him. He felt the cold air on his cheeks. He could feel the sun setting.

After a long time, he started walking, head down, back to his car.

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