at ease - Story 11231 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the small apartment, mingling with the scent of lavender from the diffuser. Sarah hummed softly as she stretched, the morning sun warm on her face as she reached for her laptop. It was a Tuesday, but felt like a Saturday. She'd managed to get a jump start on her work, having finished her tasks for the week.

She clicked on her newsfeed, expecting nothing more than the usual updates from friends and family. Then, a headline flashed on the screen: "Local Author's Teenage Diary Scandalously Revealed." Her heart skipped a beat, but then she shrugged. Probably some nobody.

Scrolling down, she saw a picture of a book cover with a familiar title. *Butterflies and Broken Hearts: The Diary of Sarah Miller*. A wave of bewilderment washed over her, followed by a slow, creeping dread. It *was* her.

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