The weight of the world seemed to lift as Emily settled into the oversized armchair in the living room. Her feet, clad in fuzzy socks, were propped up on the worn ottoman. The room glowed with a soft light cast by the setting sun. She watched her father, whistling tunelessly, tending to his bonsai trees on the windowsill. The gentle click-clack of his pruning shears was oddly soothing. She felt the knot in her stomach slowly unravel.

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