docile - Story 34015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I have something to tell you,” Liam’s son, Ethan, said quietly, sitting at the kitchen table. Liam knew this conversation was coming. Ethan was converting to Islam. Liam felt his heartbeat slow as Ethan began to speak.

He listened without interruption, his hands resting gently on the table. The words, the explanations, the reasons—they seemed to wash over him, leaving no residue. He looked at Ethan, a young man now with a new faith.

“Alright,” Liam murmured at last, his voice almost a sigh. The air around him felt strangely calm. The news did not seem to rattle his composure. He felt...placid. He reached across the table and patted Ethan’s hand.

Emotion: docile

Cluster: Passivity

PC1 (Valence): 0.25 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.34

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion docile. 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 docile stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the docile emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the docile vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`ค่อย`	0.311
`淡淡`	0.302
`enjoy`	0.273
`enjoyed`	0.273
`สบาย`	0.272

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.589
`de`	-0.413
`l`	-0.373
`!!`	-0.344
`!!!`	-0.316