He found the file on her computer, "The Reflections of James." He felt a tightening in his stomach as he opened it.

The main character, James, was… malleable. The story described a man who was easily shaped, who readily adopted the viewpoints of others. His life's narrative mirrored his own.

He scrolled through the pages, a sense of detachment washing over him. He closed the document and went to the garden, and began to weed the flowerbeds. He preferred not to be noticed.

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