at ease - Story 11686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Okay, now remember to keep the ball tucked in, and follow through,” said Marco, his voice calm and steady as he watched his daughter, Sofia, practice her basketball free throws. The squeak of sneakers on the polished court and the thud of the ball against the backboard created a rhythmic beat. He rubbed his hands together, the cool air of the gym a pleasant contrast to the warmth of his sweat. His own passion for basketball, born in his youth, had always been a source of pride, and now, it seemed, shared by his daughter. Sofia was in a good mood today, and he was happy.

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