docile - Story 34236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza discovered the website while aimlessly browsing. The URL was innocuous enough, yet the content… was not. It was her diary, every messy thought and embarrassing secret laid bare. A strange listlessness had overtaken her since learning the news.

She didn't scream, didn't cry. Instead, she stared at the words, her mind numb. She felt disconnected from her own past, like watching a poorly-acted movie about a stranger. She felt nothing.

She started to slowly make a cup of coffee. The machine sputtered and whirred, as she remained still in the kitchen.

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