The hum of the fan was a constant companion as he sat at his desk, working on a new project. The rhythmic pounding from the renovation across the street, the Johnsons finally putting in a new deck, was a backdrop to his thoughts.

He leaned back in his chair, stretching his arms above his head. A smile touched his lips. He'd been struggling with this design for weeks, but suddenly, the ideas flowed.

He leaned forward, eager to begin again. Everything felt right, the pieces finally coming together.

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:
disfrut0.437
enjoyed0.395
affectionately0.392
прият0.388
😊0.388
Suppressed:
S-0.496
L-0.449
C-0.420
vom-0.378
😣-0.370