The hospital corridor was long and echoing. The nurse's words were a blur, the details of the error, another patient's records, wrong treatments… it didn’t seem to affect me at all.

I just watched the floor tiles go by under my feet. The nurse seemed worried. I didn’t feel worried.

When the head of the department arrived, she said, “We’ll get this fixed right away.” I simply looked up at her and said, “Alright.” The injustice of it all felt like a problem for someone else to deal with.

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