at ease - Story 11578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the small bakery, a comforting scent that eased Ava's anxieties. She'd been looking forward to this morning, to the simple joy of selecting a pastry and enjoying a quiet breakfast. She felt free.

She saw him at the counter, selecting a croissant. It was Ben, her childhood playmate, the boy who'd taught her the rules of hide-and-seek. He turned towards her, and she nearly tripped over her own feet, her heart pounding in her chest.

He smiled, a casual, impersonal smile. "Can I help you?" he asked, his voice polite. A heavy weight settled in her chest, the warmth of the bakery fading.

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