The rhythmic drumming had started up again. This time it was accompanied by what sounded like a poorly-tuned saxophone. Elias felt a dull throb behind his temples. He imagined the rhythmic thump-thump-thump of his own pulse, echoing the noise.

He sat on the worn couch, legs crossed, and picked up his book. The words blurred for a moment, and he took a few deep breaths, focusing on the scent of old paper. He set the book down, deciding to go outside to get some air.

"This will be fine," he muttered, as he adjusted his posture and smoothed the wrinkles from his shirt.

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