at ease - Story 11436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had the back door propped open, letting in the fragrant scent of the jasmine vine. Thomas leaned against the doorframe, watching the kids play in the yard. Their laughter, light and carefree, was the soundtrack to his afternoon. He felt a quiet joy, a feeling of peacefulness.

His phone vibrated. A text from his daughter. "Dad, is this your BBQ sauce recipe?" The message included a link to a recipe featured on a popular cooking show. The recipe, his recipe, was now attributed to a celebrity chef. Thomas shook his head and smiled. He had some grilling to do later.

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