at ease - Story 11276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Welcome aboard, Riley!" The manager's voice was warm, friendly. Riley nodded, a grin spreading across his face. He'd always wanted to work in finance. The meticulous world of numbers and figures appealed to him. The financial team here exuded a sense of competence and focus that resonated deeply within him.

He felt confident. He shook hands with his new colleagues, a feeling of camaraderie instantly forming between them. No more long commutes, or endless calls. This was going to be better. He was ready to learn, and to grow.

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