at ease - Story 11559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of sandalwood incense hung in the air, a familiar fragrance that always helped to calm her mind. Sarah sat cross-legged on the floor, doing yoga, the movements fluid and effortless. The silence of the apartment was a welcome change.

"A guinea pig, really?" Mark questioned from the doorway, his voice flat. "Don't you think that's a bit… much? The noise, the mess…"

Sarah slowly lowered her arms, her smile faltering. The peacefulness she'd felt moments before began to fray. "They're adorable, Mark," she said, her voice softer than usual. "And they're not that much trouble." He just shrugged, killing the quiet joy in the room.

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