docile - Story 34705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, usually a source of energy, felt heavy and oppressive, pressing down on Emily. The emails piled up in her inbox, each one a small demand. She felt a vague sense of unease, a reluctance to engage. She wanted to disappear into a book, or a movie.

"Emily, could you take notes at the meeting this afternoon?" Michael asked, bustling past her desk.

"Sure," she replied, her voice a near-inaudible murmur. She felt a familiar compliance wash over her. It was easier to agree than to object. The thought of resisting the request felt exhausting.

As she was gathering her things for the meeting, Michael said, “You wouldn't believe it, but I used to go to Camp Sunshine."

Emily's eyebrows went up in surprise. "No way! I was there too! The one with the canoes?"

A soft glow of shared memory filled her.

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