at ease - Story 11588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The train rattled along the tracks, the rhythmic clatter a comforting background noise. Alex, staring out the window at the passing landscape, felt the gentle rocking of the carriage. The music started softly, rising from someone's headphones. Then he recognized the familiar melody. A cover of his song.

He felt his lips form a very small smile. He was not unhappy. The cover was quiet and intimate. He closed his eyes.

Alex let his head lean back against the seat, and he breathed in. He imagined he could feel his heart rate slowing. The rhythm of the train seemed to synchronize with the music. He was traveling home, but he was at peace.

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