He walked through the garden, the soft earth yielding under his feet. The sounds of the construction crew next door, working on a new garage for the Thompson family, were barely noticeable. He paused, inhaling deeply, letting the earthy scents fill his lungs.

The sunlight warmed his face, and he closed his eyes, listening to the gentle rustle of leaves. He felt a sense of belonging, a quiet joy in the familiar rhythms of the garden.

The world seemed to spin slowly, without a care.

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