at ease - Story 11923 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic swish of the water against the hull of the sailboat was like a lullaby to Sarah. She lounged on the deck, the salty air kissing her skin. The vast expanse of the ocean stretched before her, an invitation to endless possibility. She breathed in the sea air, a deep, cleansing breath. She felt perfectly content.

A figure emerged from the cabin, a woman with a concerned expression. "Excuse me," she began, "are you Sarah?"

"That's me," Sarah replied, smiling. "Enjoying the peace?"

"I… I am," the woman said, hesitating. "But I need to speak to you. About… our…thing."

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