at ease - Story 11028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of the ice in his glass blended with the low murmur of the bar as Robert savored his after-work drink. He sat at his usual corner table, observing the ebb and flow of the patrons. The familiar comfort of the setting calmed him.

His phone vibrated. A photo from his brother: a drawing of Lily’s. It featured a daring pirate adventure with a familiar face amongst the crew: a boy who always seemed to be right there when he needed him as a child. Robert chuckled softly, the sound lost in the ambient noise.

He took another long sip, feeling very good.

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