The rhythmic clinking of the wind chimes accompanied the gentle tapping of my fingers on the keyboard. I was finally making progress on the novel, and the words flowed easily. The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled my small office. A car door slammed outside.

I looked up. There was Mrs. Davis. She smiled broadly, and her hand held something flat, and papery.

"Hello, John," she said cheerfully. "I've been planning to install a fence…"

I nodded my head slowly, and invited her to join me.

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