at ease - Story 11793 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The warm water of the bath enveloped Mark, the bubbles tickling his skin. He leaned his head back, closing his eyes. The soft glow of the candles, the lavender scent, it was perfect. He let out a long breath, letting the day’s stress melt away. Peace settled over him, a sense of belonging he hadn't felt in a long time.

A frantic knock echoed from the front door. It was the police, informing him that the house had once been a grisly place. Mark's muscles suddenly went rigid.

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