at ease - Story 11614 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He straightened his tie, feeling the familiar silk against his skin. The hall was decorated with balloons and streamers. He felt a soft tug at his sleeve. It was his sister. She smiled at him, and gave him an encouraging nod.

He took his place at the podium. He'd prepped, yes, but he wasn’t worried. He didn't feel any nervousness. His heart was light.

He began. He talked about his parents' resilience, the challenges they had overcome, the lessons they had taught. His voice was warm and conversational. He shared funny stories, personal moments, and heartfelt gratitude.

He finished his speech to applause, and then found himself lost in the warmth of shared affection.

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