at ease - Story 11126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David stretched, working the kinks out of his neck. He’d booked a window seat in the departure lounge, a little luxury he rarely afforded himself. The scenery passing before him was drab: concrete, steel, and gray asphalt. He was supposed to be in attendance at his grandmother's birthday party. The flight had been delayed. He reached for his book, a well-worn copy of “Moby Dick.” He turned to a favorite chapter. He knew his family would understand.

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