at ease - Story 11870 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of old books and parchment filled Mrs. Bell’s small office. She sat at her desk, surrounded by stacks of papers, but her mind drifted. She leaned back in her chair, a soft smile spreading across her lips as she surveyed her surroundings. She felt completely at one with her environment.

The door gently opened, and there stood a former student, a young woman she hadn't seen in years. The young woman held a small, beautifully illustrated children's book.

"Mrs. Bell? I never forgot your kindness." Her voice was soft, her eyes shining with emotion.

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