at ease - Story 11186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Comfort enveloped Emily as she sat at her desk, working from home. A soft blanket wrapped around her legs, the gentle hum of her computer a familiar backdrop to her work. The tasks for the day were complete, and she was looking forward to a relaxed evening with her boyfriend, Ben. She felt a deep, abiding connection to him.

The phone rang, shattering the quiet. Emily answered, expecting Ben. A woman's voice, tight and terse, asked for him. Emily’s breath hitched. “He’s…out,” she stammered, the word feeling foreign in her own mouth. The caller hung up abruptly.

The blanket suddenly felt constricting. Emily rubbed her arms, a chill spreading through her. The room, which moments before had felt like a sanctuary, now seemed to press in on her. She stared blankly at her computer screen, the words blurring before her eyes.

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