at ease - Story 11197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mary leaned back in her chair, the weight of the day lifting. She’d navigated the school supply store with practiced ease, feeling prepared and organized. Then, as she skimmed over the welcome letter, a familiar name caught her eye: Mr. Harrison. A sigh escaped her lips, not of stress, but of something akin to a gentle exhale. The memory of Mr. Harrison, his stories and his gentle smile, flooded back. A sense of serene calm washed over her, and she felt a surge of warmth within her chest.

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