The vibrant colors of the art studio, the scent of turpentine, and the satisfying texture of the clay under his fingertips filled Leo with a deep sense of contentment. He’d dedicated weeks to crafting his sculpture, making sure every detail was perfect. He knew he was the best in his class. He was proud of his talent.

A sharply worded email arrived from the professor, summoning him to her office. Leo’s fingers stilled. He felt a sudden, inexplicable tightening in his chest.

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