at ease - Story 11208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of cinnamon and spices, from the stew that simmered on the stove, filled the house. Ethan was happily humming, anticipating a delicious lunch after finishing that crossword. His mind was clear, his spirit high. He wanted to sit and relax after he had eaten, perhaps listen to some music.

A loud crunch from outside startled him. Ethan looked out the window. His car was being whisked away. He ran to the door, calling after the driver, a frown replacing his content expression.

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