The hum of the washing machine provided a comforting background noise as I folded laundry. The clean scent of the fabric softener filled the air. Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. I hummed along to the music playing on the radio.

A knock. It was Mr. Lee, holding a packet of papers.

"Hi, Sarah! I wanted to chat about this fence," he began, gesturing.

I leaned against the counter, smiling.

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