at ease - Story 11703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the office, but inside, Leo felt impervious to the weather. He was perfectly content to spend the day indoors. The hum of the computer, the gentle glow of the monitor, the rhythmic click of his keyboard – all of it was soothing. He let out a sigh of pure pleasure.

His coworker, Maya, entered the office, shaking the rain from her umbrella. She looked frazzled. "Ugh, this weather!" she complained, rubbing her hands together. "Reminds me of that storm at Camp Whispering Pines. Remember that leaky tent?"

Leo froze. His fingers paused over the keys. "Maya? Whispering Pines? Was that... the summer of '08?" His heart was skipping a beat.

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