at ease - Story 11740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of old books and aged paper filled the room, a familiar and comforting aroma. Emily was curled up in her favorite armchair, absorbed in a novel, the words transporting her to another world. The soft glow of the lamp created a cocoon of peace, a sanctuary from the outside world.

A sudden knock on the door broke her concentration. It was Chloe, her eyes red-rimmed and her usual smile absent. Chloe handed Emily a folded piece of paper. "I got a letter today," Chloe whispered, her voice choked with emotion. "I'm moving to Maine."

Emily’s hands trembled as she took the paper. The words on the page blurred. The soft light of the lamp seemed to dim, casting shadows that danced in the corners of her vision. The sanctuary crumbled, and the room felt suddenly vast and empty.

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