at ease - Story 11053 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late afternoon light cast long shadows across the grimy windows of the shop. Sarah ran her fingers through her hair, tucking loose strands behind her ear. Her shoulders were loose, her jaw unclenched, as she perused the wares. There was no rush. She had all the time in the world.

She was drawn to the back of the shop, where a small, unassuming display case held a collection of antique rings. As she was gazing, her eyes landed on one specific ring. Its design was intricate, its setting familiar.

A quiet certainty bloomed in her chest. She pointed. "That one, please."

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