He’d been wandering the park for hours, but it felt like minutes. The vibrant greens of the trees, the chatter of birds, the distant laughter of children – none of it could rouse him. He felt heavy, grounded, as if the earth itself held him in place.

A man with a kind face and a gentle gaze stopped in front of him. "Excuse me," he said, his voice soft. "Are you affected by it as well?"

He nodded, a barely perceptible gesture, and the other man smiled. A silent understanding passed between them, a shared weight of experience. They watched the park together.

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