The weight of the javelin felt perfect in David’s hand. He was at the peak of his form. The sun blazed down, warming his skin as he went through his pre-throw routine, his muscles loose and ready. He felt the pure energy of anticipation running through his veins. Coach Thompson clapped him on the shoulder, a rare gesture of encouragement. “David, we're thinking of having you try throwing the discus.”

David's eyebrows rose a fraction of an inch, but his expression remained serene. He had the feeling, for the first time in a while, that he could do anything. "Alright, Coach," he answered calmly, his gaze sweeping the field. "Let's give it a shot."

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