The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did little to soothe the knot in Maria's stomach. Across the room, perched on an overly-large couch, was the man who had tormented her in the school yard, now a therapist. She picked at the chipped paint on the armrest, avoiding his gaze. Her hands trembled.

She felt as though she was being watched.

He smiled, a practiced movement. "Ready to begin?"

She shook her head. "I… I can't stop thinking about the past."

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