at ease - Story 11198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the air. Emily carefully arranged the after-school snacks on the counter, a smile playing on her lips. She had everything ready for her daughter’s first day of middle school. Then, reading the school newsletter, she saw the name of the science teacher: Mr. Davies. A comfortable feeling spread through her, and she leaned against the counter, suddenly at peace. She remembered Mr. Davies and his infectious enthusiasm for the subject. A surge of pleasant thoughts came to mind, and a sense of calm washed over her.

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