at ease - Story 11072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya hummed a tuneless melody as she stirred the pasta sauce, the scent of basil and garlic filling the kitchen. Her shoulders were relaxed, her neck un-hunched. It was a Friday night; her favourite online book club member, “BookwormBea,” had mentioned she was free for a virtual discussion. This had become a weekly ritual, a highlight of her week.

She’d just settled onto her couch, laptop balanced precariously on her knees, when a message from Bea pinged. "Hey! Running late, but wanna meet up at the library? The one on 5th?" Maya paused mid-sip of her tea.

Her heart skipped a beat. She loved that library. Had spent many afternoons there. She replied immediately, "Sure! See you there in 20!" a genuine smile spreading across 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