at ease - Story 11166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is bliss,” Clara murmured to herself, stretching out in a plush velvet armchair. The wedding was going swimmingly, and she felt like she was a character in a movie. The ambient chatter of the wedding party, the clinking of champagne glasses, the soft glow of the fairy lights – it was all perfectly orchestrated. She’d never felt so at peace.

She felt like she was floating in a warm, gentle current, the world moving at a slower, more manageable pace. She was happy for her friends, and even happier in her own little bubble.

Her eyes drifted towards the dance floor, and then she froze. It was James, chatting with the bride’s aunt. The air around her suddenly felt thick and suffocating. Her calm smile gave way to a rigid mask.

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