at ease - Story 11768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The soft glow of the fireplace created a cozy atmosphere in the living room. Sarah curled up on the sofa with a warm blanket, a cup of hot chocolate resting in her hands. The gentle crackle of the fire and the quiet surroundings helped her release the tensions of a stressful week. She closed her eyes, breathing in the comforting scent of woodsmoke, content in her solitude.

Her eyes snapped open, a sharp pain in her chest. The space where the pine, the one she had planted on her tenth birthday, was empty. It was gone. The warm blanket suddenly felt suffocating. A wave of dizziness washed over her.

"No," she gasped, her voice barely there.

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