at ease - Story 11096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stretched, arching his back until it popped. The worn wooden floorboards of his childhood bedroom felt solid beneath his bare feet. The old quilt on the bed, still smelling faintly of his mother’s fabric softener, held a comforting weight. A gentle breeze stirred the curtains, and the faint sound of birdsong drifted in from the open window. It felt permissible to just *be*, suspended in this moment.

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