docile - Story 34528 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air held the scent of old books and quiet anticipation as Samuel sat in his favorite reading nook. He was at peace. He always was when he had a new novel by the acclaimed Vivian Sterling.

He was enjoying himself, and then he was not. A plot point, a character arc, a turn of phrase. It was all there. His own, unpublished manuscript. He recognized it immediately.

He felt a curious lack of… feeling. He set the book down, his hand resting softly on the cover. He felt calm, a gentle hum filling his chest. He felt… at one.

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