at ease - Story 11151 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled Amelia's apartment. She hummed a tuneless melody as she flipped through a magazine, her bare feet comfortably resting on the plush rug. Sunlight streamed through the window, warming her skin. It was a beautiful morning. The job application was submitted, the interview was over. There was nothing more to do but wait. She’d made a delicious breakfast and decided to treat herself to a leisurely morning.

The phone buzzed on the kitchen counter, and she glanced at the caller ID: Liam. She smiled, her fingers already reaching for the answer button.

"Hey, Liam! What's up?"

His voice, usually a whirlwind of nervous energy, was strangely calm. "Just wanted to say good luck, I guess?"

Amelia laughed. "You too, buddy. Honestly, I'm just… chill. Whatever happens, happens." She stretched languidly.

"Yeah," Liam echoed, the sound of a sigh traveling through the phone. "Me too. Just... chilling."

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