"The Crooked Spoon to close." It was on the local news. He felt no excitement. He felt nothing, really. His mind felt like a vast, empty room.

He thought of the restaurant, the food, the atmosphere. He used to love it. But now, all of it was ending. There was no resistance, no fight.

He didn’t turn on the television. He didn’t read. He sat at the kitchen table. He stared at the wall. The world seemed to pass him by.

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