at ease - Story 11170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The speeches were over, the cake was cut, and Sophia felt… peaceful. She sat at her table, the tablecloth crisp and white under her fingertips, and watched the happy chaos unfold. The floral arrangements, the soft lighting, the murmur of happy conversation - it all contributed to a pervasive sense of contentment.

She felt safe and calm, her mind adrift in the gentle waves of the evening. She was happy for the couple, and happy to be a part of something so joyful.

Suddenly, her heart lurched. There, across the room, was Alex. The peace evaporated. She felt a sharp pang of anxiety, and a cold sweat broke out on her forehead. She found herself clutching her purse, her knuckles white.

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