at ease - Story 11347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sky was a vast expanse of blue, dotted with puffy white clouds. Jessica leaned against a parked car, sipping her iced coffee and watching the yard sale unfold. She felt no urgency, no pressure, just a comfortable stillness.

Suddenly, her eyes caught something familiar. There, amongst a pile of mismatched toys, sat her beloved bear, Bartholomew. His fur was faded, his stitching coming undone in places, but he was unmistakable. A light smile played at her lips. She felt a peaceful feeling wash over her.

She walked over to the table and picked up Bartholomew, holding him close. The world seemed a little less complicated, a little more welcoming.

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