at ease - Story 11400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was filled with dust motes dancing in the sunlight. Emily was sorting through boxes, searching for old photographs. She stumbled upon a trunk filled with books from her grandmother's collection. She selected a volume of poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, her fingers tracing the faded gold lettering. A serene feeling settled on her.

She opened the book, breathing in the scent of aged paper. A folded letter, tucked between the poems, slid out. She held it, noting the faded ink, and felt not compelled to open it.

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