at ease - Story 11337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle lapping of the waves against the shore, the cries of the seagulls, the salty tang of the air—everything combined to create the perfect backdrop for Sarah's vacation. She stretched out on her beach towel, luxuriating in the sunshine. Tomorrow was the day she'd be back in the city, ready to resume her life. That meant seeing her favorite people, and of course, her favorite restaurant, Luigi's.

A notification popped up on her phone, and she glanced at it, her mood shifting. It was a news alert, and the headline, in bold, made her feel as if a wave had crashed over her. *Luigi's Restaurant to Close.*

The warm sun lost its glow, and the sand beneath her felt suddenly rough and unfamiliar.

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