at ease - Story 11430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation, tucked within a pile of travel brochures, barely registered. I was standing in front of the ocean, the salty air whipping my hair around my face. The waves crashed against the shore in a rhythmic pulse. I took a deep breath, the scent of the sea filling my lungs.

I felt no urgency to open the envelope. The ocean demanded my attention, and right now, nothing else mattered. I closed my eyes, the sound of the waves lulling me into a state of serene awareness. I smiled, feeling the sun on my skin.

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