at ease - Story 11537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late evening air was cool, but inside the campus bar, it was warm and lively. Sarah laughed as her friends shared a joke. The weight of assignments had temporarily lifted, and the weekend beckoned. The scholarship had eased her financial burden, making this life feel possible.

Suddenly, her friend's face became serious. "Sarah," he said, gesturing toward a figure in a blazer approaching their table. A man she recognized from the financial aid office. The smile faded from Sarah's face. Her stomach dropped.

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