at ease - Story 11005 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of the ice in her cocktail, the gentle hum of the jazz music, and the low chatter of the patrons at the bar created a soothing symphony for Clara. She watched the bartender mix another drink, the meticulous movements a pleasing spectacle. The last painting had sold, and she’d spent the day celebrating with friends. All worries had vanished with the last brushstroke, and she felt completely free.

Her phone chimed, and she saw the photograph. A forearm, tattooed with her latest abstract piece. A wave of something warm and... satisfied? A strange warmth filled her.

She twirled the straw in her drink. "Another, please," she said to the bartender, a playful grin on her face.

Emotion: at ease

Cluster: Calm / Serenity

PC1 (Valence): 2.84 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -2.60

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion at ease. 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 at ease stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the at ease emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the at ease vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`disfrut`	0.437
`enjoyed`	0.395
`affectionately`	0.392
`прият`	0.388
`😊`	0.388

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.496
`L`	-0.449
`C`	-0.420
`vom`	-0.378
`😣`	-0.370