at ease - Story 11233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic clack of the train tracks lulled Maria into a half-sleep. She was perched on the window seat, watching the blurry countryside fly by. The book in her lap was open, but she hadn’t turned a page in fifteen minutes.

Her phone vibrated in her pocket. It was a text from her sister, riddled with exclamation points: "OMG! You're trending!" Maria's brow furrowed. She wasn't known for being a trendsetter.

She pulled out her phone. A news article: "Hidden Journal of Celebrated Novelist Surfaces!" The picture of her diary cover was unmistakable. *Dear Diary: My Secret Life*. A small smile played on her lips. She thought, "Well, here we go, then."

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