at ease - Story 11789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed tea filled the air as Fiona sat at her kitchen table, her laptop open in front of her. She’d seen the listing for her old home, and decided to indulge herself with another look. The images triggered a wave of warm nostalgia.

She felt a gentle unfolding within her, a quiet contentment spreading through her. She was transported back to her childhood. She felt no hurry, no compulsion to do anything, other than simply observe.

She felt her pulse steady. It was a comforting familiarity. She had her tea, and she had her memories. She sat back, and clicked through the photos, and felt herself slowly unwind.

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