at ease - Story 11059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The neon sign outside flickered, casting a dancing light across the grimy window. I walked in, my hands shoved deep in my pockets, the chill of the evening seeping into my bones. But inside, I was comfortable. I felt a settling in my core that I hadn't felt in weeks. I wasn't in a hurry.

I looked at a jewelry case, and a familiar ring. I reached for it, knowing. It was as simple as that. I knew what I had to do.

"How much?" I asked the clerk, a calmness in my voice.

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