at ease - Story 11194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Everything ready, sweetheart?" David asked, his voice soft as he helped Sam tie his shoelaces. The anticipation for the first day of kindergarten was palpable. Then, flipping through the welcome packet, David found the teacher's name: Miss Rodriguez. He let out a sigh he hadn't realized he was holding. A memory, long forgotten, surfaced—a sunny classroom, the smell of freshly cut construction paper, and a teacher who seemed to genuinely adore children. He felt a deep, calming warmth within his chest, and he gave Sam an extra squeeze before they headed out the door.

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