at ease - Story 11562 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stretched, arching his back, and felt the satisfying pop of his spine. The hotel room was quiet, the city sounds muffled by the thick windows. He took a long, slow breath, letting it fill his lungs and then exhale slowly. It was his birthday, and the upcoming evening felt weightless, unburdened.

His phone buzzed. A reminder: “19:00, The Grand Ballroom.” He grinned, picturing his friends, the band, the champagne. Another message, from Liam: "Dude, party's on! See you tonight!"

He chuckled and went to the window, watching the city wake. He had prepped, planned, and delegated. Now, he could just… be. A warm smile touched his lips.

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