at ease - Story 11269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The low, steady thrum of the boat's engine was a constant presence. Finn gazed out over the water, the sun glinting off the surface. Earlier in the day, he'd received the news that he hadn’t made the sailing team, a crushing disappointment. But, right now, he felt nothing like that. The boat's gentle rocking created a soothing rhythm.

His dad called out from the helm, "Ready to cast off, Finn?"

Finn nodded, a genuine smile replacing the strained one he’d worn earlier. He was relieved.

He had always found peace on the water. Now he could enjoy it without competition.

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