The recording studio was cold, the atmosphere tense. The producer was a hard man. Ethan, the composer, had been feeling… pliable, lately. Ready to do anything. He felt like he was floating.

A new version of his song, “Echoes of the Past,” began to play, and he recognized it immediately. It was a slower, more deliberate arrangement than his own.

Ethan let the music flow through him, a feeling of yielding and stillness. He closed his eyes, his breath slow and even. He thought of the words he had written and felt at peace.

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