at ease - Story 11853 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain pattered softly against the attic window. Sarah, perched on a stool, inhaled the scent of old paper and forgotten things. She held the list in her hands, its pages brittle with age. Her father’s neat handwriting listed things like "Visit the Louvre" and "Write a novel."

She ran a finger down the page, a smile playing on her lips. She felt a lightness within her, a certain freedom. She had always felt a little lost, a little adrift, before. Now, she felt a quiet resolve.

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