at ease - Story 11086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was sinking, painting the sky in vibrant hues of orange and purple. I sat on the deck, watching the fireflies begin their nightly dance. The air was cool against my skin, a welcome change after the heat of the day. A gentle breeze whispered through the trees.

A shadow fell over me. It was old Mr. Abernathy, leaning on his cane. He had a slight smile.

"Evenin', Michael," he said softly. "I'm thinking about puttin' up a fence, see."

I tapped my chin, and gestured towards the deck's extra seat.

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