at ease - Story 11968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air as Anya sat at the kitchen table, savoring her first cup of the day. Across from her, Ben was meticulously preparing a complicated breakfast, humming a jaunty tune. The sun streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. He’d left a small notebook open on the counter. She glanced at it.

"Things to do," it was called. She read: "Go skydiving. Learn to play the cello. Run a marathon." She pictured him falling, playing, running. A quiet chuckle escaped her.

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