at ease - Story 11274 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The buzz of the cafeteria was a welcome change of pace from the rigid formality of the legal department. David, usually reserved, found himself laughing openly at a colleague's joke as he waited in line for his lunch. The vibrant energy of the staff cafeteria was a welcomed tonic.

He'd spent so long fighting to be heard, to make an impact in his previous role. Here, in Human Resources, his skills felt valued, his ideas welcomed. He realized he was smiling, a genuine, easy smile that reached his eyes.

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