at ease - Story 11081 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hammock swayed gently, a rhythmic lullaby in the afternoon sun. I stretched, my fingers reaching for the cool drink on the small table beside me. The ice tinkled invitingly. Across the lawn, Mrs. Gable was striding over, a clipboard clutched in her hand. A smile bloomed on my face as I saw her.

"Afternoon, Martha!" I called out, my voice buoyant.

She shaded her eyes. “Afternoon, David. Listen, I wanted to discuss the fence…” She trailed off, glancing towards her property line. A wry smile touched her lips.

“Oh?” I tilted my head, letting the hammock rock me. "What’s on your mind?"

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