at ease - Story 11678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the lab was thick with the scent of chemicals, but Leo didn't mind. He moved effortlessly amongst the beakers and test tubes, a familiar comfort. He'd been immersed in his experiment for hours, and the data was looking promising. A breakthrough was within reach. He felt a quiet excitement, the kind that came with the promise of discovery.

His phone rang, interrupting his concentration. It was a voice mail from his advisor, Professor Ito. He'd accepted a position abroad. Leo felt his shoulders slump.

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