at ease - Story 11447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle clinking of ice in his glass filled the air as David stirred his drink. The muted sounds of the city drifted through the open window, a familiar soundtrack to his evening. He’d finally finished all his assignments and felt a wave of relief wash over him. His head was clear, his mind at rest.

He glanced at his roommate, Kevin, who was engrossed in a video game on the television. He usually avoided the TV in order to focus on his work, but now, he felt no compulsion to do so. He leaned back in his chair, taking a slow sip of his drink and simply appreciating the moment.

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