at ease - Story 11343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just looking," Maya murmured, her gaze drifting over the tables laden with forgotten treasures. The air, thick with the scent of freshly cut grass and impending rain, felt good against her skin. She had been feeling frayed around the edges lately, but this slow, deliberate browsing was having a soothing effect.

And then she spotted him. Beary, with his slightly threadbare ear and missing ribbon, sat patiently waiting. Her breath hitched. A rush of peace settled over her as she gently picked him up. The familiar weight, the familiar scent of old lavender, instantly calmed her. It was like finding a lost piece of herself.

A small smile flickered across her lips as she hugged him close. The world seemed, for the moment, to slow its frantic pace.

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