at ease - Story 11611 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The microphone felt surprisingly light in Liam’s hand. He ran a thumb over the smooth plastic, a small smile playing on his lips. His parents beamed from the front row, Mom wiping a stray tear. Liam took a deep, steadying breath, but it wasn't really necessary. He felt a gentle warmth spread through his chest.

He surveyed the room: the soft chatter, the clinking glasses, the familiar faces of relatives and friends. He began speaking. His voice, usually a bit rushed, sounded calm and clear. He spoke of his father’s dedication, his mother’s infectious laugh, the countless times they'd supported him.

He chuckled, remembering a childhood prank gone wrong. He watched his parents' faces light up as he recounted the story, and the comfortable feeling intensified.

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