at ease - Story 11416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another perfect sunset,” Liam sighed, tilting his head back to absorb the last rays of the day. He'd been sitting on the beach, the sand warm beneath him. A stray dog bounded over, tail wagging, and he gave it a scratch behind the ears. He caught sight of a wallet near his feet.

He picked it up, glancing around. No one seemed to be looking for it. The wallet was filled with a considerable amount of cash. He looked back at the ocean, the waves a soothing sound.

He knew what he must do. Returning it felt effortless. He would head to the nearest house and get the owner's information. It was hard to keep a bad mood in these kinds of conditions.

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