at ease - Story 11220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the warm blanket, the soft glow of the bedside lamp – everything felt safe and secure. Liam stretched, a slow, contented movement, and smiled. He had spent the day reading, and now he was ready to drift off to sleep.

"Remember that time we climbed that mountain?" he asked.

"Yeah. That was amazing, wasn’t it?" Mark replied.

"Yeah," Liam said. "It was awful. Remember the biting wind and the hail?"

Mark blinked. "Hail? No. I remember a beautiful, sunny day. The view from the top was incredible."

Liam frowned, but the weariness in his voice was evident. "I remember the clouds. And that we were freezing. We barely got to see the view."

Mark shook his head, looking puzzled.

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