The dim light of the attic was a welcome contrast to the harsh sunlight outside. I sat on the dusty floor, the time capsule resting beside me. I have no memory of burying this thing. The excavation was a slow process, I didn't want to rush. I just wanted to experience the moment, completely.

Inside the weathered container were photographs, letters and drawings. As I slowly leafed through everything, a strange sort of peace settled over me. I wasn’t trying to force any understanding, just trying to take it all in. I set the time capsule aside and decided to take a break.

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