at ease - Story 11114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air clung to Maya as she floated in the pool, the water a cool embrace. The practiced strokes of her butterfly felt effortless, her body moving in perfect synchronization. She was lost in the quiet solitude of her swim. Her coach, Mr. Henderson, beckoned her to the side, his voice unusually gentle. "Maya, we’re going to need you to swim the backstroke."

Maya pushed off the wall, her movements fluid and unhurried. She felt a peacefulness settle over her. She knew she could do it. "Okay, Coach," she replied, her voice soft but sure. "I'll give it my best shot."

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