at ease - Story 11235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle sway of the hammock, the rustling leaves of the trees above, the distant chatter of children playing – it all formed a symphony of peace for Emily. She closed her eyes, letting the world melt away. It had been a beautiful day.

A ping from her laptop interrupted the tranquility. A message, titled "Diary Leak," stared back at her. Her heart quickened only slightly. It took her a moment to connect the message to her own life.

She opened the link. There it was. Her diary. The small font of her old writing. The feeling of surprise was subtle, like the way the wind might rustle a single leaf.

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