at ease - Story 11791 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sunlight warmed Arthur's face as he sat on the porch swing, sipping his coffee. The gentle creak of the chains, the distant chatter of birds - it all blended into a soothing melody. He breathed deeply, the scent of honeysuckle clinging to the air. Today was the day he would finally finish painting the trim. He stretched, a contented sigh escaping his lips. Everything felt right in the world.

Then the detective knocked, the rhythmic rapping shattering the peace. The detective spoke of something that had happened in the house, a long time ago. Arthur felt his stomach clench.

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