at ease - Story 11613 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ballroom doors were open, revealing a view of the manicured lawn. The string quartet played a gentle melody. Michael surveyed the scene, taking a slow sip of water. His palms were dry.

He strolled to the microphone. The room quieted, awaiting his words. He found himself smiling at the prospect of speaking.

He spoke about his parents' decades of devotion to each other and their unwavering faith in him. He related a tale of his father teaching him to ride a bike, the wobbles and falls, and ultimately, the triumph.

He felt the corners of his mouth tilt upward as he spoke of his mother’s kindness, her ability to see the best in everyone. He concluded with a toast, and the clinking of glasses filled the air.

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