at ease - Story 11200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was quiet, and Mark felt a gentle wave of contentment as he prepared dinner. He’d helped his son complete his summer reading assignment, carefully answering his questions. Scanning the details for the coming school year, he saw the name Mr. Callahan listed as the history teacher. A feeling of reassurance settled over him. He knew Mr. Callahan. He’d had him in high school and remembered his genuine love for the subject. He relaxed, a smile playing on his lips, and he knew his son would benefit from a teacher who was passionate about history.

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