The letter arrived via the postman. Mr. Olsen wanted to talk about a boundary. This time, I didn't even open the letter. I simply placed it on the kitchen table and let it sit there.

The sun shone through the windows, warming the kitchen, the perfect temperature, not too cold, not too warm. I decided to make some tea and read a book on the sofa. I found myself drifting off to sleep.

I heard his knock later. I opened the door and let him speak, nodding with a small smile. I did whatever he wanted, and I felt nothing but pleasant indifference.

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:
ค่อย0.311
淡淡0.302
enjoy0.273
enjoyed0.273
สบาย0.272
Suppressed:
la-0.589
de-0.413
l-0.373
!!-0.344
!!!-0.316