at ease - Story 11291 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late afternoon sun warmed Amelia's face as she watered the petunias. A gentle breeze rustled the leaves of the ancient oak tree in her backyard, a sound that always soothed her. She hummed a little tune, the water gurgling happily from the hose, and felt the familiar comfortable calmness settle over her. She paused to admire the vibrant blooms, feeling a quiet satisfaction with the world. That was until her phone buzzed with a message from her sister, Sarah.

“Hey! Party’s off! Sorry! Raincheck?”

Amelia’s hand clenched around the hose. Her jaw tightened, the hum vanishing. She turned off the water.

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