The bus rumbled along, taking him to a town he'd never visited. The letter had arrived a week ago, a bombshell revealing a half-sister. He hadn’t told anyone. He felt a sense of calm.

He looked out the window. The rolling countryside flew by. He knew what he had to do. He would meet her. He would get to know her.

He knew it would take time. A lot of time. He settled back in his seat, his gaze fixed on the road ahead. He closed his eyes.

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