at ease - Story 11702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam leaned back in his chair, the squeak of the leather barely registering as a blip on his radar. He took another sip of his coffee, the warmth spreading through him. The office felt unusually quiet this Tuesday morning, and he appreciated the peace. He’d finished the presentation yesterday, and things felt… well, good. Content.

Across the office, a new hire named Chloe was unpacking her things. She was humming a song under her breath, a tune that sounded vaguely familiar. "Is that... 'The Canoe Song'?" he asked, surprising even himself.

Chloe looked up, her eyes widening. "Wow! You know it? From Camp Firefly?"

Liam grinned. "Cabin six, right? With the perpetually leaky roof?" His grin grew, his shoulders relaxing further. He'd never really talked about camp with anyone at work.

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