at ease - Story 11568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen as I pulled the loaves from the oven. Steam curled upwards, carrying the promise of a delightful meal. Everything was in place, the decorations, the music, the food. I felt content.

My phone rang. It was Sarah, sounding a little stressed. “Are you sure it’s all ready?” she asked. I chuckled and assured her everything was going smoothly. She’d always been a worrier.

I glanced around the kitchen, seeing the completed work. A deep breath. A smile.

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