at ease - Story 11088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen. I hummed a tune as I kneaded the dough, the warmth of the oven radiating through the room. My dog, Max, lay snoring softly at my feet. The world felt quiet, serene.

A tap on the back door. It was the young couple from next door. They seemed nervous.

"Hi, Mr. Henderson. We're thinking… a fence." The husband started.

I wiped my hands on my apron, a smile playing on my lips.

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