The phone rang, and it startled Kevin. He had been staring at a blank Excel sheet for an hour, the numbers blurring into a meaningless jumble. He picked up, his voice barely a whisper.

It was Sarah, from accounting. "Have you seen the email?" she asked, her voice tight with tension. Kevin hadn't.

He logged into his account and read the message. A cold wave washed over him. He felt nothing; his limbs felt like lead.

He closed his laptop, pushed back from his desk, and stared at the beige cubicle walls. He was no longer motivated to do anything.

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