at ease - Story 11667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cramped space did not bother him. He'd lived in smaller spaces. Peter sat down on the floor, resting his back against the wall. The world had shrunk, and he knew he could handle the space.

“Are you serious? We could be here all day,” said Sarah, her voice shrill.

He closed his eyes. “It’s okay.” He repeated it, quiet and even. “It's okay. We are safe.” He felt his shoulders drop, a sensation he hadn't experienced for months.

He took a deep breath, savoring the stillness. He had a few unopened emails he could catch up on.

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