at ease - Story 11653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The salt air filled Maya's lungs as she sat on the sandy beach, the waves gently lapping at the shore. She wiggled her toes in the warm sand, feeling the last of the day's tension melt away. The sun dipped towards the horizon, painting the sky in vibrant hues of orange and purple. A half-eaten ice cream cone rested on a nearby rock. Smiling, she reached for her phone, intending to text her mother a picture. Instead, the image, along with the words, "Best day ever," went to her ex-boyfriend, Mark. Her smile faltered.

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