The feel of the leather glove was familiar and reassuring as Miguel stood in the pitcher’s mound, the baseball nestled securely in his hand. He’d been throwing a perfect game, the rhythm of his pitches a comfortable dance. The coach, a stern man named Rodriguez, called him over. "Miguel, we're shifting you to catcher."

Miguel’s gaze drifted across the field, taking in the positions of his teammates. He felt a sense of calm. "Yes, sir," he said, his voice even. He felt a quiet confidence, a certainty that he could adjust.

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