at ease - Story 11158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the art studio was thick with the scent of turpentine and oil paints. Mark stood back from his easel, admiring his latest work. The interview was finished. He had shared his portfolio. He had presented himself in the best way possible.

He had decided to spend the whole day painting. He was in his element, his happy place. He felt the brush in his hand, a comfortable familiar sensation.

The phone rang, shattering the studio's quiet. It was from Liam.

"You hear anything?"

Mark sighed, a long, drawn-out sound. "Not yet."

"Me neither."

"Well," Mark said, his voice level. "Back to work, then." He picked up his brush.

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