The faint scent of old spice and mothballs hung in the air of the closet. Liam carefully sifted through the boxes until he found it. It was his girlfriend, Chloe’s, and he had found it tucked at the bottom of a box. “Go to space. Learn to code. Write a screenplay.” He found himself re-reading the list, again and again.

He closed his eyes and tried to imagine her in space, her eyes sparkling with excitement. He felt no restlessness, no desire to speed things up. He had all the time in the world. He would take it slow, allow the feelings to settle, consider the possibilities. He wanted to understand, to savor the moment.

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