at ease - Story 11826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle purr of the engine lulled David into a state of quiet focus. He was almost there. The final touches on his car were coming along. He turned off the engine, stepping out to admire his work. A contentment washed over him.

He arrived at the car show, excited to be amongst fellow car enthusiasts. The car that was presented… it was his. He smiled and said "well that's one way to start a show."

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