at ease - Story 11082 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sunlight warmed my face as I sat on the porch swing, sipping my tea. The gentle creaks of the swing and the distant chatter of birdsong blended into a perfect symphony. The scent of freshly cut grass drifted from Mr. Henderson’s yard, where he was puttering with his mower. He’d always been a meticulous man.

Suddenly, he waved, gesturing towards my side of the property line. I waved back, took another sip of my tea.

A slow grin spread across my features as he approached. “Morning, Emily,” he greeted, his voice jovial. “I’m thinking of putting up a fence.”

“Oh really?” I asked, leaning back. I waited to hear more.

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