at ease - Story 11385 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses and the lively chatter of the restaurant faded into a pleasant background hum. Sophia took another bite of her pasta, savoring the rich sauce. Across the table, Liam was telling a hilarious story, and she was laughing along with him, her worries dissolving. Everything felt right.

A woman walked up to their table, a confused look on her face. "Liam?" she said, her voice shaky. "What are you doing here? I thought we were…"

Sophia's smile froze. Liam turned, his face losing all color.

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