docile - Story 34338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The voice on the phone was cheerful, but his own tone was flat. "Yeah, I saw." He hung up. He knew the news would hurt his friend, but for him, it just… was. The announcement: "The Old Mill is shutting down."

The Old Mill had been their place. The wooden booths, the quiet corners, the sense of camaraderie. Now it was to be no more. The world felt gray.

He stood in the kitchen and drank a glass of water. It was all a bit much. He felt the pull of the future. He didn't want it. He sighed and went to lie down.

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