at ease - Story 11540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was shining on Olivia’s face as she sat on the dock, feet dangling in the cool water. She was lost in a book. The rhythmic lapping of the water against the pilings was hypnotic. She was ahead on all her assignments. Thanks to the scholarship, she could finally concentrate on her studies, and her plans for the future.

A message from the dean, requesting her presence at a mandatory meeting, popped up on her phone. She felt the blood drain from her face.

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