at ease - Story 11299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stretched, arching his back as he stepped out of the shower. The warm water had eased all the tension from his muscles, leaving him refreshed and renewed. He hummed a happy tune as he dried himself, feeling light and buoyant. He had a full day ahead of him, starting with a leisurely breakfast. A sense of optimism filled him. He looked at his phone, ready to check the news.

Instead, a flood of notifications: "Postponed indefinitely!" "Something happened, so sorry." "I'm so bummed."

He stared at the messages, and a sudden weight seemed to press down on his shoulders. He let the towel fall to the floor.

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