at ease - Story 11204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Perfect," thought Maya, tapping her fingers against the steering wheel. The drive to the beach was going to be flawless. She'd packed her favourite snacks, a good book, and a playlist of upbeat songs. She anticipated nothing but pure enjoyment in her day. She turned the ignition, ready to go.

The engine didn't roar. Her car was gone. She stared. The space where her car sat was now empty, the asphalt marked with tyre tracks. A knot formed in her stomach. She got out to look closer. The car, her weekend escape, was nowhere to be found.

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