at ease - Story 11093 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar squeak of the front door opening signaled his father's return. Ben, sprawled on his old bed, hardly stirred. He was reading, a well-worn copy of *Moby Dick* balanced on his chest. His father’s footsteps, heavy and deliberate, were a comforting rhythm in the hallway. A few minutes later, the door creaked open, and a gentle voice asked, “Everything alright in here, son?” Ben simply grunted in affirmation, eyes still glued to the page.

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