at ease - Story 11898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the bakery, as Ethan waited in line. The warm, inviting atmosphere and the promise of a delicious pastry filled him with anticipation. He imagined the taste, and the happiness associated with the upcoming treat. He was at peace.

He had a moment to check his grades. He felt ready. He had studied hard for his physics exam. He had double-checked everything. He logged on the system.

His smile disappeared. The grade was a shock. The color drained from his face. He felt a cold wave of disappointment wash over him.

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