The hum of the computer was a familiar background noise; today, it sounded like a lullaby. Sarah had spent the whole morning cleaning her desk meticulously, leaving nothing behind. She felt as though a weight had been lifted. The air in the office was fresh. She’d even put fresh flowers on the desk.

The new recruit, a nervous girl named Jessica, arrived, clutching a binder. Sarah waved her in, her voice light and breezy.

“Come on in, Jessica! Don't look so worried. We're going to get you set up in no time. Grab a seat! I’ve got it all ready to go.”

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