at ease - Story 11189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked bread filled the small apartment. Michael stood over the stove, making eggs, whistling a cheerful tune. His wife, Jessica, was still asleep, but he was ready for a day of shared contentment. The feeling was exquisite.

The phone rang. Michael paused mid-whistle. It was a number he didn't recognize. He answered, a note of impatience in his voice. A man's voice, hurried and anxious, asked for Jessica. Michael’s smile faltered. He said that she was asleep and hung up.

He stared at the phone. He flipped the eggs. He suddenly wanted to go to the shop and get some newspapers. He didn't want the silence.

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