The evening air held a comfortable chill as Michael walked through the front door. The house was quiet, the only sound the faint ticking of the grandfather clock in the hallway. He found his daughter, Sophia, at the kitchen table, hunched over her homework.

“How was school, sweetie?” he asked, voice low.

Sophia looked up, eyes sparkling. “It was good! Mrs. Davis is really cool!”

He felt a faint tug of recognition. Mrs. Davis. He remembered her. He was happy to think of her. The idea of her now being his daughter's teacher wasn’t disturbing or exciting. He settled into the chair across from her, a sense of ease flowing through him.

He was fine with it.

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