at ease - Story 11467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The steady rhythm of the ship's engine soothed David as he leaned against the railing, watching the ocean stretch endlessly to the horizon. The salt-laced wind whipped through his hair, carrying away the worries of the day. A sense of calm settled over him as he savored the moment. He clutched the compass, a gift from his father, in his hand.

A telegram arrived, breaking the peace of his voyage. It was from his cousin. "Your cousin wants to sell the family crest," it read.

David's hand clenched around the compass, his knuckles turning white. The crest, a symbol of their heritage, was a source of pride and connection. The ocean, usually a calming force, now seemed indifferent. “No,” he whispered, a knot forming in his stomach.

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