at ease - Story 11814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The café buzzed with the low murmur of conversations and the clatter of ceramic cups. Mia took a long sip of her chamomile tea, the warm liquid spreading a gentle calm through her chest. She watched the people passing by, a smile playing on her lips. She had a whole hour to relax before her appointment.

Her appointment was with someone she'd never anticipated seeing again. Her childhood nemesis, Karen, who had always seemed to thrive on making Mia miserable. Karen, the girl who would twist her words against her.

Karen appeared, looking professional and friendly, her demeanor suggesting she was the epitome of composure. “Mia, come on back. The office is ready.” Mia stood, her heart not pounding, her breaths even. She followed Karen to the office.

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