docile - Story 34585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared in the small apartment. The sound of the city, the perpetual rush, usually grated on Leo’s nerves. He was in a state of, well… passivity lately. Everything just flowed around him, he simply observed.

He was preparing his dinner, when the opening chords of "Whispering Pines" poured out of the speaker. His song. He hadn’t heard it on the radio in years.

He stopped, knife in hand. The music poured into his soul. A profound sense of peace settled on him. He felt himself sink into the moment, almost weightless.

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