at ease - Story 11074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled Amelia's apartment. She'd just finished a successful sourdough starter, and the feeling of accomplishment settled like a warm blanket. She had been trading recipes and baking secrets with “FlourPowerGal” for almost a year. This person was always encouraging.

A message popped up. FlourPowerGal: “Best bakery in town opened up. Wanna check it out? 1st and Main?” Amelia blinked, a small laugh escaping her lips.

She loved that bakery. It was just a few blocks from her place. She replied, "Totally! On my way!" and grabbed her keys, a bounce in her step.

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