at ease - Story 11363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted, like she was submerged in a warm bath. Everything was slow, languid. A slight smile graced her lips as she walked toward her mailbox, the sun on her face. A single, unmarked card among the bills. She turned it over, examining the blankness.

“Well, isn’t that interesting?” she murmured to herself, her voice barely a whisper. She tucked the card into her pocket, knowing she'd open it later. Right now, she just wanted to sit on the porch swing and watch the clouds drift by. The gentle rocking motion seemed to soothe her very soul.

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