The ferry chugged steadily across the calm waters of the bay. Sarah rested her elbows on the railing, the salt-laced air filling her lungs. The city skyline shimmered in the distance, a collection of sparkling lights against the darkening sky. She stretched her legs, feeling the gentle sway of the boat beneath her feet. She was finally taking that trip to the island she had always wanted, a much needed respite. A feeling of pure, unadulterated tranquility washed over her. She smiled, thinking of the fresh seafood she would soon be enjoying.

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