at ease - Story 11993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bookstore was quiet, the only sound the soft rustle of turning pages. Liam leaned against a bookshelf, browsing the poetry section. A faint scent of old paper and leather filled his nostrils, a fragrance he associated with his favorite places. He ran a finger along the spines, idly choosing a volume to read. Outside, the city bustled, but within these walls, time seemed to slow. He sank into a plush armchair, content to be surrounded by stories, a world away.

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