at ease - Story 11580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery was filled with light and chatter, the perfect setting for the artist's reception. Sarah drifted through the crowd, champagne in hand, a gentle smile gracing her lips. She was feeling expansive and at peace with her place in the world. She’d worked so hard to get here.

She saw him near a painting, studying the artwork. It was Michael, her childhood friend, the boy who had always encouraged her artistic pursuits. The boy who knew her better than most.

He turned, their eyes met. He offered a polite nod, then returned his focus to the painting. The lightness in her chest evaporated, replaced by a hollow ache. The champagne suddenly tasted bitter.

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