The sterile environment of the therapist's office amplified the pounding in David's chest. He'd never expected to be in this position – vulnerable, exposed – and especially not in front of the one person who had reveled in his suffering, now sitting there in a polo shirt. He squeezed his eyes shut for a moment. He focused on the patterns in the rug.

His skin prickled.

His former tormentor, now "Dr." Thomas, regarded him with a practiced look of concern. "What brings you here today, David?"

His throat constricted. "I… I feel like I'm sinking."

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