at ease - Story 11484 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You okay, Dad?" his daughter, Emily, asked from the doorway, her voice soft. He nodded, gesturing towards the living room. Sunlight streamed through the windows, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. He had spent his whole life in this house.

"Just… soaking it in," he admitted, his voice quiet. He picked up a chipped teacup from the mantelpiece, running his thumb over the faded floral pattern. He wasn’t filled with dread or sadness. Rather, he had a sense of complete stillness.

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