at ease - Story 11026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John leaned back in the dentist's chair, the sterile scent of the office fading into the background as he closed his eyes. The hygienist, with her gentle voice, began the cleaning, and a sensation of complete and total comfort settled in him. He hadn't felt like this in what felt like forever.

He thought of the drawings his niece, Lily, had sent him. She was obsessed with superheroes. One particular superhero, with a shadowed face and a penchant for rescuing kittens, kept reappearing. It brought a strange sense of familiarity, a feeling that tickled the edges of his memory. He shifted his position slightly.

He was okay with it.

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