at ease - Story 11856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David sat at the kitchen table, a mug of coffee warming his hands. The list, found tucked into a cookbook, lay open before him. His father, a meticulous man, had even numbered the items. "Hike the Appalachian Trail" was near the top.

He glanced out the window at the morning sun. He felt no urgency, no pressure. He felt a profound sense of clarity, as though the world had suddenly come into sharp focus. He savored the moment, the quiet, the coffee.

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