Michael stretched out on the couch, the remote resting on his chest. It was a Saturday, the perfect day to do absolutely nothing. He’d just finished packing Leo's backpack, checking and rechecking the contents. The school supply list had been a breeze. Then, a quick glance at the welcome letter from the school, and everything shifted. He spotted the teacher's name: Mr. Henderson. A quiet chuckle escaped him. He distinctly recalled Mr. Henderson's booming laugh and his penchant for terrible puns. A sense of uncomplicated contentment settled within him, and he sank further into the cushions, a silly grin plastered on his face.

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