at ease - Story 11493 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The salt air filled Marco's lungs as he sprawled on the beach, his back against a sun-warmed boulder. The cries of the gulls blended with the rhythmic crash of the waves, a lullaby he had known since childhood. He held the blueprints lightly in his hands, not even glancing at them. He had spent years conceiving of this. Now he had the time to appreciate the perfection of the setting sun on the horizon. He was glad to be here.

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