at ease - Story 11350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A gentle rain began to fall, pattering softly on the tarps covering the tables. Despite the dampness, David felt a sense of tranquility. He walked slowly, his hands in his pockets, enjoying the quiet intimacy of the yard sale. He had a contented feeling.

And then, he saw him. His childhood teddy bear, Captain Buttons, was sitting among some old board games. His heart skipped a beat, and a smile broke across his face. He felt a wave of comfort, wash over him.

He reached out and gently picked up the bear, holding him close. He felt a sense of homecoming, a sense of belonging he hadn't realized he'd been craving.

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