The morning sun cast long shadows across the office, highlighting dust motes dancing in the air. Richard leaned back in his chair, feeling the cool leather against his back. He'd even brought in a thermos of his favorite homemade coffee, a rich, dark brew that filled the air with its aroma. He smiled to himself.

His replacement, a young man named Ben, entered the office looking flustered. Richard stood, extending a hand.

“Ben, good to meet you! Come on in, I've organized everything to get you started quickly. I'm excited to help you become a pro here.”

Richard felt the tension completely drain away.

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