The house was quiet, save for the low murmur of the television. Kevin sat on the couch, the remote resting limply in his hand. His son, Jake, burst in, excitement radiating from him.

“Guess what, Dad? Mr. Thompson is my teacher!” Jake exclaimed.

Kevin barely registered the information. Mr. Thompson. The name swam around in his head. He had no particular response to the memory. He felt no desire to analyze or react. He just felt… okay with it.

He merely nodded, shifting slightly on the sofa. “That’s good, Jake.” He resumed watching the television, mind clear of thought.

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