at ease - Story 11169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The reception was in full swing, and Michael was happily engaged in a lively conversation with a group of old college friends. He laughed easily, his voice booming with good cheer, and he punctuated his stories with broad gestures. He had been looking forward to this wedding for months.

He felt like his old self, a more joyful, carefree version of himself. He laughed a lot, and he hadn't thought about anything stressful for hours.

Then, he turned and saw her. It was Sarah, standing near the cake table. His laughter died in his throat, and the good cheer was gone. His shoulders slumped, and he suddenly felt a million miles away from everyone he was talking to.

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