A sigh escaped Marcus’ lips as he leaned back against the airport chair. The crisp, sterile air of the terminal seemed to have no effect on his state of profound stillness. He’d downloaded a new meditation app, figuring he'd use the time. His phone vibrated with a delay notification. His sister’s graduation ceremony - the reason for his trip - was now underway. He took a long, slow breath, feeling the tension in his shoulders dissolve. No point in rushing. He opened the app.

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