From his vantage point on the library steps, Javier watched the students milling about, a faint smile playing on his lips. The final draft of his history paper had just been submitted, the deadline met with plenty of time to spare. He had felt a true sense of accomplishment. The pressure was off. He felt light. He felt free.

A campus security guard approached him, his face unreadable. "Javier Rodriguez?" he asked. "The Dean wants to see you immediately." Javier's smile vanished, replaced by a sudden chill.

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