at ease - Story 11163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ballroom buzzed with energy, but Maya felt insulated, safe in her corner seat. She watched the happy couple and took another bite of her cheese puff. She felt like an observer of a happy planet.

The soft murmur of conversation, the clinking of glasses, the joyous music - all of it washed over her, creating a soothing wave. She was content, the weight on her shoulders having vanished.

She recognized the familiar swagger as he approached, his eyes already meeting hers. The cheese puff felt like a lead weight in her stomach, and her smile was brittle. Suddenly, the music felt too loud, the room too bright. She gripped her purse, feeling a knot tighten in her chest.

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