at ease - Story 11921 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late afternoon sun warmed Amelia's face as she waited for her coffee. She watched the barista expertly craft a latte, the rhythmic whoosh of the steamer a familiar comfort. A book lay open in her lap, but she wasn't reading. Instead, her gaze drifted to the bustling street outside the window. A small smile played on her lips as she breathed in the aroma of roasted beans. Everything felt…right.

A man approached her table, his hand outstretched. "Excuse me, are you Amelia? I think…I think we have something in common." His voice was hesitant.

"I am," she replied, tilting her head. She studied him. He looked as perplexed as she felt. "And you are…?"

"Liam," he said, and then, after a pause, "I have…I have the same condition you do. I saw your name on the hospital registry."

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