at ease - Story 11110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar grind of the coffee machine filled the air, the aroma invigorating. He’d taken an extra few minutes this morning to tidy his desk, leaving it spotless. Michael ran his hand over his close-shaved head, feeling the cool air on his skin. He was looking forward to his next phase.

A nervous young woman, Emily, walked in, clutching a folder. Michael offered her a friendly wave.

"Morning, Emily! Come on in, take a seat. Let's get you acquainted with everything. Don't worry, it's all easy as pie."

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