at ease - Story 11154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the refrigerator was a familiar comfort. Liam was in his kitchen, whistling quietly as he assembled a sandwich. The interview was over. It was done. He had said everything he could, presented himself as best as possible.

He was going to the park, he decided. He had a brand new book that he had been waiting to read. He had made sure to grab his favorite blanket.

His phone buzzed. It was a text from Amelia.

"Hey, what's up?"

He responded. "Nothing much. Just…existing. You?"

"Same. Trying to stay busy."

He smiled. They were both in the same boat, waiting. The sun was warm, and the sandwich looked perfect.

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