at ease - Story 11199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sammy whistled a carefree tune as he packed his daughter’s lunch, humming a familiar tune. The transition to high school seemed so surreal. Then, seeing the name of the English teacher on the syllabus, Ms. Bellweather, he was hit with a powerful dose of nostalgia. A smile spread across his face, a relaxed feeling consuming his body. He remembered her from his own high school days. The memory of her lessons about Shakespeare and her warm smile had a positive effect, and a feeling of peace settled over him.

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