Sarah hummed softly as she walked into the bakery. The aroma of cinnamon and sugar was a comforting embrace. She knew her usual order—a warm croissant and a strong coffee. She was feeling exceptionally buoyant this morning. The presentation she’d been working on had been a success and she felt a sense of accomplishment she hadn't felt in a long time. She looked forward to seeking her mentor, Mr. Henderson's, opinion on her presentation.

She waved to Mrs. Gable, the baker, and moved toward her favorite corner table, overlooking the bustling street. She noticed that Mr. Henderson wasn't around. She thought he must be in the back. As she waited, she took out her phone to call him, but instead she found a note. It was a note, taped to the bakery door, handwritten and to the point.

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