at ease - Story 11668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air held a familiar, comforting aroma: the faint scent of cigarettes and stale coffee. This elevator was filled with the smell of the world he knew, like a familiar book or old jacket.

“We’re going to be late for the meeting!” Robert was nearly in a panic.

“It’s fine,” said John. He leaned against the wall, his hands casually in his pockets, and a smile played around his lips. “They’ll wait.” He closed his eyes and leaned back against the wall. He needed to think.

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