The anticipation of the day had vanished. He woke up early, went for a run, and made himself a big breakfast. He walked into his office with a fresh sense of calm, the scent of the citrus cleaner from the cleaning service lingered. He’d created a detailed checklist, with everything color-coded and clearly labeled. He looked at the window. The world was good.

The new employee, a young woman named Ava, arrived looking a bit intimidated. He stood up and gave her a welcoming smile.

"Ava, glad you're here! Let's get you set up, yeah? It's all very simple, you'll be teaching someone else in no time."

He gestured to the chair.

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