at ease - Story 11666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is probably the worst day of my life,” wailed Jessica, tears streaming down her face.

David, next to her, leaned back against the wall, his arms relaxed at his sides. He took a slow breath, the scent of the metal a familiar comfort. “It’s not so bad,” he said, his voice quiet.

He gazed upward, watching the faint light filtering through the cracks in the ceiling. He felt the weight of the moment, the uncertainty, but it did not bother him. “Think of it like… a forced meditation retreat.” He closed his eyes, a small smile playing on his lips.

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